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The performance of the music is first class, really engaging, and both

singer and pianist deftly capture Schubert’s shifting emotions, curious
harmonic shifts (as Baillieu says in one of the commentaries, the shift
from major to minor in Schubert is like moving from one universe to

another). The songs are occasionally interspersed with commentary by
Appl and Baillieu (less frequently) on the music, and there’s a wonderful
segment of Appl in conversation with Brigitte Fassbaender, discussing