The morning after a concert—with the Freiburger Barockorchester, in Cologne—I meet the German baritone Christian Gerhaher for an interview in a hotel lobby. We keep talking in the car on the way to the airport, and then in the terminal. A concert in the evening means that no energy can be wasted during the day. In performances, there’s a palpable sense of burden for Gerhaher, though he’s been praised by Simon Rattle and Daniel Harding and compared to Dieter Fischer-Dieskau. He describes to me how hard it was to watch and hear himself in a recent documentary.
What Isn’t Art
An interview with Christian Gerhaher
