Album insights
Matthias Goerne's first two albums for Deutsche Grammophon, recorded with pianists Jan Lisiecki and Seong-Jin Cho, received high praise from the press. Collaborating with Daniil Trifonov, the renowned German baritone completes his planned trilogy. The new album, "LIEDER," delves into visionary reflections on life and death through songs by Schumann, Brahms, Wolf, Berg, and Shostakovich. Opening with Berg's Op. 2 Four Songs, the album captivates with enchanting invocations of sleep and the boundless universe of dreams. Journeying further into the metaphysics of existence, it features Wolf's Michelangelo Songs and three pieces from Shostakovich's Suite on Verses by Michelangelo Buonarroti. Ending profoundly, Brahms' Four Serious Songs serve as the conclusive piece, wherein death finds its inevitable place in the natural order of things. Schumann's Dichterliebe, exploring the impossibility of love and the agony of being, stands as a pinnacle of Romanticism with its renowned anthem "Im wunderschönen Monat Mai."