Young German baritone Samuel Hasselhorn and Israeli-South African pianist Ammiel Bushakevitz continue their five-year 200th anniversary project marking Franz Schubert’s productive final years with volume two and 16 songs from 1824-25. Appropriately tagged Light and Shadow, they are broken up by three short piano pieces.

The first of the five volumes featured the Die schöne Müllerin song cycle, which received glowing reviews. Once again the pair show admirable chemistry, Bushkavitz’s nuanced touch complementing the young baritone who shows himself to belong to the lyrical rather than muscular school.

Crystal clear diction, finely shaped phrasing and poetic sensitivity are again prominent features in this program which starts stormily with Die junge Nonne – a five-minute mini-drama resolved with a serene Alleluja! – and the thunderous opening chords of Die Allmacht (“Great is Jehovah, the Lord!”). Here Hasselhorn displays his full dramatic range.

There’s a light comic touch to Die Einsame – a hermit living happily with his “chirping...