Christian Gerhaher reviews

This is not just a very fine recording of Schubert’s first song cycle. Wilhelm Müller wrote 25 poems entitled Die schöne Müllerin, of which Schubert discarded five when he set them to music. Christian Gerhaher, in his second recording of the cycle, argues in a lengthy article that to have those five recited in their original places gives a new slant on things: there is irony in these poems, though irony didn’t ever interest Schubert.