Matthias Goerne
Matthias Goerne's first two albums on Deutsche Grammophon, recorded with Jan Lisiecki and Seong-Jin Cho, were critically acclaimed and received numerous awards. Now, the renowned German baritone completes his planned trilogy in collaboration with Daniil Trifonov. The current album, LIEDER (Songs), features songs by Schumann, Brahms, Wolf, Berg, and Shostakovich, offering a poetic reflection on life and death. A central work is Schumann's Dichterliebe (Poet's Love), a 16-part song cycle that explores the unattainability of love and existential challenges, and is considered a pinnacle of Romanticism. The album opens with Berg's Four Songs, Op. 2, in which sleep and the dream world merge. The journey through the metaphysical leads from Wolf's Michelangelo Songs and Shostakovich's settings of Michelangelo Buonarroti's poems to Brahms's Four Serious Songs, in which inevitable death is considered part of the natural order.
The journey through the metaphysical leads via Wolf's Michelangelo Songs, Shostakovich's settings of Michelangelo Buonarroti's poems, and finally to Brahms's Four Serious Songs, in which inevitable death is viewed as an integral part of the natural order.