SACD, Linn (label)

All five singers have clearly grasped the importance of Rorem's text-based conception of song, 'poetry as expressed through the voice' and they sing - albeit in resolutely English English which... — BBC Music Magazine, February 2010, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Apart from his nimble dexterity, Freeman-Attwood's playing is just as striking for the beauty of his lyrical phrasing and his richness of colour, so well demonstrated by Saint-Saëns's "Romanza",... — Gramophone Magazine, June 2007 More…

Cargill's beautifully integrated, smoky mezzo reveals the full stature of [Alma's] songs, just as Simon Lepper relishes their fearless piano writing...The Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen welcome... — BBC Music Magazine, September 2014, 3 out of 5 stars More…

Gilchrist is an impressively rounded advocate. His enunciation is superb, his melodic phrasing is always wonderfully musical; he can be seductive, but at times there's an eloquent astringency... — BBC Music Magazine, December 2010, 5 out of 5 stars More…

Gilchrist is as agile as his pianist and evidently attuned to the importance of her role...the mystic union of ground-bass piano with confident vocal line in the concluding 'Death, be not proud'... — BBC Music Magazine, November 2012, 5 out of 5 stars More…

Gareth Brynmor John tunes in to Schoenberg's pungent and resinous arrangement, sweet with avian flute and violin, bittersweet in the dark, mesmeric breathing of the harmonium…[Berceuse elegaique]... — BBC Music Magazine, September 2015 More…

Murray has announced that this wil be her final Lieder recording. If indeed it proves to be so, she will be going out on a high. Her voice is obviously mature, but still in good trim...her artistic... — BBC Music Magazine, June 2015, 4 out of 5 stars More…