(A bonus is the game of picking out the fragments of other Schumann songs embedded in the score.)

There were seven Schumann songs and seven more by Schubert, all relatively familiar.

She's singing some Schumann songs Mr. Harsanyi used to go over with me.

By far the most substantial offerings were the three Schumann songs, which have the feel of care, thoughtfulness, symmetry and affecting musicality.

There were 12 Schumann songs before intermission and 11 by Schubert after it.

But the production was enhanced by the sensitive way in which Christopher Mooney, a baritone, and Ania Marchwinska, a pianist, performed the accompanying Schumann songs.

The harvest of Schumann songs in the second half included the popular "Widmung" and "Zum Schluss," both with texts by Rückert.

The eight-volume series of complete Schumann songs on Hyperion belongs in every serious collector's library.

However, most Schumann songs depend less on beautiful tone than on a sensitive reading of the words, and in that area Mr. Fischer-Dieskau still has few serious challengers.

The recital will offer Schumann songs and Schubert's "Schwanengesang."