Brahms' meeting with the Schumanns opened up new horizons for him: this CD relates an astonishing musical conversation between the three of them.

Fascinated by the manifold interactions between this artistic trinity, Werner Güra and pianist Christoph Berner, devised a semi-staged concert performance which forms the basis of the selection of lieder on this CD. In songs and letters [here not read, but printed, in a sumptuous booklet] is a musical and literary journey into Romanticism at its most exalted.

At the time of the original release, Oct. 2004, there was no solo tenor recording of the Brahms or Clara Schumann [and none with this sheer beauty of voice and diction].