Robert Peters compares several recordings of Schubert's "Der Lindenbaum."

I learned the song as an undergraduate voice student and have heard
several interpretations of it, both live and recorded for about thirty
years.  To this day, the song makes no impression on me whatsoever --
neither the poem nor the music.  The poem strikes me as an instant cliche.
The music seems ... well, pleasant.  I don't find anything interesting
at all in the music.  I have no idea why cultured listeners gravitate
in such numbers to this song.  There's none of the amazing nihilism of
"Die Stadt" or the sheer terror of "Die Kraehe," for example.  For me,
it's just one of those blank spots in the cycle that gives me permission
to wink out for a couple of minutes and pop back in when something finally
pulls me back.

Steve Schwartz