Browse: Hugo Wolf Complete Songs (series)

The soft-grained baritone of Quirijn de Lang, with its somewhat cloudy vowels, is well-suited to [Nacht und Grab], sung over what is virtually a piano nocturne, beautifully played by Sholto Kynoch...Mary... — BBC Music Magazine, Christmas 2012, 3 out of 5 stars More…

McGreevy brings a disarming simplicity to the 'motto' song of this cycle of miniatures ('Even small things can delight us'), and Stone's well-groomed baritone declares his love with directness...I... — BBC Music Magazine, June 2012, 3 out of 5 stars More…

The use of a variety of voice-types rules out sameness, but the singers bring varying degrees of fantasy, so that quality is inconsistent. In the Lenau set, Huntley’s mezzo, noble in timbre and... — Financial Times, 27th July 2013, 3 out of 5 stars More…

The real treat is Lydia Teuscher’s gorgeously sweet and agile soprano voice, matched by Thomas Hobbs’s silken tenor. Teuscher’s rendition of the summertime lullaby, Wiegenlied im Sommer, borne... — BBC Music Magazine, June 2017, 4 out of 5 stars More…

As the palette of voices is varied, Kynoch is able to group the Lieder thematically without risking tedium...Gilchrist alert to [the songs'] volatility and drama; Daneman capturing every elusive... — BBC Music Magazine, December 2011, 4 out of 5 stars More…

All of these singers are adequate, none of them is a big name...but this is a disc few would regret buying. — BBC Music Magazine, May 2014, 4 out of 5 stars More…

their performances are acutely sensitive to Wolf's musical nerve system. And, best of all, a sense of intimacy, of close confiding with the audience, really does come over - invaluable for private... — BBC Music Magazine, September 2011, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Programme comprises some of the composer’s liveliest – and coincidentally, least-known – songs — Financial Times, 30th March 2013 More…