In addition to their artistic complexity, Schubert's songs revel in the directly expressive power of melody. But you wouldn't have known it from Matthias Goerne's laboriously mannered account of "Die ...

Tania León’s piano music, John Cage’s choral works and Beethoven’s symphonies conducted by Yannick Nézet-Séguin are among recent notable recordings. Bach, Brahms and new works by George Lewis are ...

Recital singing is a serious business with Matthias Goerne, and he insists on serious listening from his audience. At his superb recital of Robert Schumann lieder Thursday in Ravinia’s Martin Theatre, ...

Programme-building, as they say, doesn’t get tougher than this: take a series of songs by Richard Strauss. Jettison anything marked either lebhaft (lively) or heiter (joyful), and select only the ...

In the last act of Richard Wagner’s influential opera “Tristan und Isolde,” the mortally wounded Tristan perishes in his lover Isolde’s arms. It ends with Isolde so ecstatically consumed by love that ...

One keeps hearing dire rumblings about the alleged death of German lieder singing, but this rarefied art form keeps demonstrating more than enough resilience to silence, or at least mute, the prophets ...

The baritone Matthias Goerne's concert Tuesday evening at the Kennedy Center Terrace Theater was both beautiful and disturbing. Beautiful -- for Goerne's immaculate technical command, the liveliness ...

Baritone Matthias Goerne has been a regular visitor to Herbst Theatre since San Francisco Performances presented his recital debut in 1998. But his singing has rarely sounded so easy or so warmly ...

Fortunate we are that Ravinia has been the summer recital venue of choice for the intense, commanding German baritone Matthias Goerne on five separate occasions since his festival debut in 2001.