Robert Murray

These singers have come up with some of the most absorbing recorded experiences of a composer who, for all his unmistakable voice, had an extraordinarily broad range of expression and poetic... — BBC Music Magazine, September 2011, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Thanks to the lucid conducting of Mario Venzago, the magnificent and fearless playing of the Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra, and a Chandos recording which combines clarity and enormous weight,... — BBC Music Magazine, May 2009, 5 out of 5 stars More…

Rose's voice may be best suited to the more boisterous songs, such as 'Der Atlas', but he can also be delicate without sounding precious — BBC Music Magazine, June 2015, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Martineau's apparently limitless wisdom about the musicians, the music, and indeed the piano continues at full stretch. The uneasy postlude to 'Voyage', frmo Calligrammes, makes for one of his... — BBC Music Magazine, February 2012, 5 out of 5 stars More…

Murray’s intelligence shines through across the complete cycle, with clever interpretative touches in the strophic songs…his German is natural and idiomatic, the words sitting unobtrusively... — Gramophone Magazine, September 2016 More…

Alongside Malcolm Martineau's searching piano, the singers find a consistent character: considered, spacious, unaffected but cumulatively intense, to the extent that you may need to pause and... — BBC Music Magazine, June 2011, 5 out of 5 stars More…