The Washington Post

Matthias Goerne, Christoph Eschenbach offer a searing, ravishing Schubert cycle

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 New York Times

Matthias Goerne

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 ...
The Washington Post

Matthias Goerne, Illuminating the Soul's Dark Night

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 ...
musicOMH

Matthias Goerne / Winston Choi review – not quite a repeat of last month’s Wigmore Hall recital

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 ...
Chicago Tribune

With Goerne, the art of lieder singing is in caring hands

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 ...