Brahms - Wie die Wolke nach der Sonne (No. 5 from Sechs Gesänge, Op. 6)

[in the Ophelia songs] Schäfer is ideally cast: she sings them very much as a singing actress would, artful in her apparent artlessness, and meticulous of diction...[the Madchenlieder's] pungent... — BBC Music Magazine, May 2011, 4 out of 5 stars 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…