Every great lieder singer cares deeply about text, the sound of the German words and how music adds a spiritual dimension to poetry. Matthias Goerne is a great lieder singer, one of the finest of his ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

Music Director Jaap van Zweden will conduct Matthias Goerne's first appearance as The Mary and James G. Wallach Artist-in-Residence of the New York Philharmonic for the 2018-19 season. He will be ...

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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...