The German baritone tells us about his Schumann album, Limelight's Vocal Recording of the Year 2019, and why in a couple of years he plans to stop singing.

Head and heart: Goerne and Andsnes mix drama and poetry.

After 150 years, Paavo Järvi brings Brahms' German Requiem back to St Peter’s Cathedral in Bremen.

Matthias Goerne’s Wagner is a thing of power and beauty.

Fifty, definitely not out: an older Goerne returns to some favourite Bach cantatas.

Josep Pons and Matthias Goerne serve up a fascinating musical celebration of a pair of seemingly strange bedfellows.

Goerne's recording debut with Italian-Austrian pianist Markus Hinterhauser yields musical chemistry that is immediately apparent.

A fascinating celebration of seemingly strange bedfellows.

Eight years ago ABC Classic FM listeners voted their top 100 chamber works and Schubert ‘podiumed’ spectacularly, taking four of the top five places, with the Trout Quintet winning gold. Runner-up was the String Quintet, and with so many hundreds of recordings to choose from, what recommends this new release by the French fivesome of the Ébène Quatuor and Gautier Capuçon? Well, if for no other reason than you get a wonderful bonus in five beautifully arranged Schubert Lieder sung by German baritone Matthias Goerne.But at over an hour’s length, the Quintet and its four kaleidoscopic movements are the main course, and what a superb meal the Frenchmen dish up! Schubert’s masterpiece takes no prisoners with its emotional twists and turns, dynamic shifts and roller-coaster mood swings, and this is a very thoughtful and intelligent reading with plenty of Gallic flair and charm. As the quartet says in the liner notes: “It is a quintet reflecting both real life and dreams, the sacred and the profane, joy and mourning, revelry in the open air and monks walking to prayer through the cloisters, jubilation in the tavern, and testament of the soul.” The players are in no hurry –… Continue reading Get…

Kentridge and Goerne's gripping Transvaal trek both hypnotises and provokes.

The German baritone's epic journey has been as inexorable as Schubert's Winterreise itself.

Limelight's Editor chats to Sydney Festival's outgoing director as he celebrates their 40th with a raft of big-hitters.