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 ...

If the great German baritone Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau had not retired from the concert stage some years ago, he would have been singing lieder programs very similar to the one presented by Matthias ...

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, ...

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 ...

Songs, we’re told, are on a different scale from opera. Songs are intimate. Songs require restraint. Monday night at the Kennedy Center’s Terrace Theater, the baritone Matthias Goerne didn’t so much ...

Matthias Goerne makes his 10th appearance at Chicago’s Ravinia Festival. The Martin Theatre acoustic is not quite as serene as that of London’s Wigmore Hall or Amsterdam’s Musikgebouw, but it is ...

Baritone Matthias Goerne was perhaps 20 minutes away from the end of his remarkable two-night lieder marathon Thursday when a burgeoning infection made him call a halt. To which the only imaginable ...

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Matthias Goerne looks less like a classical musician than a blue-collar worker — although there was no collar at all on the T-shirt he wore under his suit at the Terrace Theater on Monday night. He ...

A nonpareil, nerd-cool presence with a sometimes internally focused stage energy, German baritone Matthias Goerne seems to be attracted to only a few operatic roles. The Metropolitan Opera has hosted ...