Schumann: Dichterliebe; Liederkreis

The beautiful lyric baritone of Matthias Goerne is, we hope, going to be around for a long time, especially when it makes possible recordings such as this. The young lieder artist gives outgoing, exceptionally engaging characterizations of these songs, supported by the wonderfully pointed pianism of Vladimir Ashkenazy. The 1997 recording is vivid and well balanced. --Ted Libbey