how refined are your ears?

And then there is Rita Streich. :>)

Why do questions like this get posted in the review forum?

If you want to know what great singing sounds like you need to listen to Jussi Bjorling, the GREAT Swedish tenor.
Period.

I'm going to submit for your consideration tenor Mark Padmore. He is well known for his his baroque works, but I also just love his recordings of the Schubert lieder with Paul Lewis. He has a unique way of saying more with less, if you catch my drift. To me, his Schubert has a rightness about it that can't be surpassed. They are lieder, not opera! See, now I've talked myself into cueing up Die Schone Mullerin.

Thanks Brownsfan.I'look into him as soon as the swelling in my head from my 110% correct predictions on Johnny Football
goes down enough to get through the bathroom door.