'Vocal technique and interpretive insights of the highest musical artistry. However many Winterreisen you may possess, you must have this one' (The Sunday Telegraph)

'Goerne sings with a rapt dedication that forces you to rethink each poem in the cycle' (The Guardian)

'Johnson and Goerne plumb the emotional depths of one of the most heart-wrenchingly sublime masterpieces in the genre' (BBC Music Magazine)

'Without doubt a historic account of Schubert's emotionally draining masterpiece' (Classic CD)

'A partnership of the highest order. I was gripped from beginning to end' (Hi-Fi News)

'Supremely performed, engineered and presented. Schubert has rarely been better served' (The Age, Melbourne)

'A spellbinding example of Goerne's art' (Schwann/Opus, USA)

'The one to knock Fischer-Dieskau and Gerald Moore from the pedestal' (BBC Music Magazine)