The internationally much sought-after bass-baritone Ulf Bästlein continues his series of recordings dedicated to individual poets and in his new CD devotes himself to the...

The internationally much sought-after bass-baritone Ulf Bästlein continues his series of recordings dedicated to individual poets and in his new CD devotes himself to the most varied settings of texts by Friedrich Hebbel. In conjunction with the pianist Sascha El Mouissi, he selected songs by composers such as Schumann, Liszt Brahms and Peter Cornelius, all of whom Hebbel met in Vienna, as well as works from later years, by Wolf, Pfitzner, Walter Courvoisier, Emil Matthiesen, Felix Draeseke, Max Schillings, Walter Braunfels and Othmar Schoeck up to Alban Berg.