Markus Werba looks at history as seen through the rear-view mirror of Romantic poetry in songs such as ‘Der Wallensteiner Lanzknecht beim Trunk’, the ‘Romanze des Richard Löwenherz’ and the fearsome battle imagery of ‘Gebet während der Schlacht’.
The Austrian baritone, accompanied by Gary Matthewman, also explores richly detailed miniatures by Schubert, ‘An die Laute’, ‘Alinde’ and ‘Sehnsucht’ among them.