Butter wouldn’t melt
Nicholas Spice: Schubert’s Imagination, 19 March 2026
Lyrical Diary: Lieder from Franz Schubert to Wolfgang Rihm
by Christian Gerhaher, translated by Shaun Whiteside.
Faber, 397 pp., £25, September 2025,978 0 571 35770 3 Show More
by Christian Gerhaher, translated by Shaun Whiteside.
Faber, 397 pp., £25, September 2025,
“... Rosenband’ and ‘Heidenröslein’.The question of self-awareness is of central interest to Christian Gerhaher, one of the most accomplished singers of the present time and one of the most thoughtful. In Lyrical Diary, he ruminates on his experience as a lieder singer, with special reference to the works of Schubert, Schumann and Mahler. Much of ... ”
