Today's baritone landscape would be bleak without Thomas Hampson. And if there is one genre of music which he is exceptionally passionate about, it is the lied. To Hampson, song and singing are "the diary of our existence" and he has invested a great amount of time, work and love in luring this genre out of the shadow of the more spectacular opera. One composer he particularly cherishes is Robert Schumann, Hampson begins this recital with the cycle Zwölf Gedichte. The second part is devoted to the original version of the popular Dichterliebe, a completely distinctive work containing many musical and textual differences, the most notable of which being the presence of four songs that were omitted from the later cycle and are featured here as first ever recordings of these rediscovered works.