‘The playing has a kind of disciplined abandon that's rare enough on the concert platform and rarer still in the recording studio. The sound is forward and immediate enough to catch some moments of roughness in the tone. But the thrust is unfailingly persuasive, and the players are as sensitive when they delve inward as when they effectively seem to be playing their hearts out’ (The Irish Times)

‘Brilliantly brought to life … superbly engineered with crystal-clear sound matched by faultless playing. A must for anyone with a musical soul’ (Yorkshire Post)

‘A fascinating exploration and one whose musical merit raises it above mere musicological interest’ (The Scotsman)

‘There is some wonderful music here. Altogether this is a fascinating disc – and not just for musicologists’ (Gramophone)

'This staggering recording … is the most remarkable recording of this elusive work since Furtwängler’s famous Berlin account in 1951' (BBC Music Magazine)

'In an age of deodorised live recordings, this rough diamond document of that concert is thrilling … a miraculous work played with humour, wisdom and daring' (The Independent on Sunday)

‘One of the loveliest records even Dame Janet has made’ (The Guardian)

‘Dame Janet is in glorious voice’ (The Penguin Guide to Compact Discs)

‘A generous and revelatory recital of Goethe and Schiller settings. Janet Baker breaks the champagne bottle over one of the most important recording projects of the half century’ (The Times)

‘After hearing Martyn Hill's breathtaking An die Apfelbäume' you'll never be the same person’ (Kansas City Star)

‘Hill's work here is inspired enough to place him in a line of tenor-interpreters of Schubert that leads from Erb and Patzak through Schreier to Rolfe Johnson. In legato, tone and above all understanding his readings are little short of ideal, from start to finish … this is a disc no Schubertian can possibly be without and a further jewel in this series's crown’ (Gramophone)

‘This is quite the equal of its predecessors in this marvellous series’ (Hi-Fi News)