Schubert - Im Haine, D738

A voice more for Schöne Müllerin than Winterreise, Bostridge's fresh, buoyant, beautifully articulated tenor suits these Lieder perfectly. The literary and musical impulses are in perfect equilibrium,... — BBC Music Magazine, January 2006, 4 out of 5 starsMore…

Scholl is seeking out that place in German Lieder where folksong seems to transmute into art song: simplicity is all, and the Brahms songs are performed with virtually no interpretative gloss,... — BBC Music Magazine, January 2013, 4 out of 5 starsMore…

Bostridge's devoted admirers will once more wonder at his famed engagement with the text in hand and his innate ability both to sing each piece in an entirely natural manner and at the same... — Gramophone Classical Music Guide, 2010More…

The flavour of the songs, composed between 1815 and 1923, is predominantly warm, as if Schubert were enjoying composition as an act of relaxation. [Eisenlohr] shows impressive poise and poetic... — Sunday TimesMore…

Bostridge’s commitment to Schubert remains exceptional, as does, too, that of his marvellous colleague Julius Drake at the piano – a player of complete technical authority, and surely the tenor’s... — BBC Music Magazine, June 2018, 4 out of 5 starsMore…