After recording romantic ballads, Kränzle & Dumno decided their next project would focus on songs exploring the limits of mankind. With their musical settings of poems by Schiller and Goethe, Schubert and Schumann provided the ideal basis for this program, which also features multi-prizewinner Theresa Kronthaler s incomparable mezzo-soprano on Schubert s Hektors Abschied.