Schubert - Bundeslied, D258

Renewed praise first of all for Graham Johnson.
This volume is as cogent an example as any of his method, a masterly exposition, in written words and musical performance, of the crucial relationship... — Gramophone Classical Music Guide, 2010 More…

there is real intelligence [in Bastlein's singing]; a sense that he is viewing each song as a unity and as a miniaturised drama in its own right. As a first taste of what the series might offer... — The Guardian, 7th January 2000 More…

All Holzmair's familiar gifts in Lieder are brought to bear on this absorbing selection of Goethe settings. Nowhere are they more to the fore than in a deeply considered account of the composer's... — Gramophone Classical Music Guide, 2010 More…

...for consistently high standards, thoughtfulness, sensitivity to words, perception and poetic instinct, not to mention the sheer quality of Fischer-Dieskau's singing, this has to be one of... — Gramophone Magazine, January 2006 More…

Thirty-two discs are devoted to Schubert and 12 apiece to Wolf, Brahms and Schumann. That still leaves many others, each a witness to his specially penetrating delivery of the words...The recordings... — The Times, 7th December 2022, 4 out of 5 stars More…