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“Folly” both fits into and challenges the tradition of Romantic lieder that Mehldau and I love so much.

Through it all his tastes have been eclectic; he’s as likely to take on lieder as he is the Great American Songbook and the jazz of Bill Evans.

Schubert’s lieder will always reign supreme, but it’s hard to disagree.

He was accepted as a choral scholar, and began to learn about opera and lieder while studying archaeology and anthropology.

I’m more accustomed to hearing Goerne’s delivery suffused with tenderness, as on his many memorable recordings of lieder by Strauss, Schubert and Beethoven, but at Friday’s performance he was a vessel of torment.