'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)

‘Deserves to be enshrined as a classic’ (The New Yorker, USA)

‘19 tracks devoted to some of the greatest songs ever written’ (Classic CD)

‘Magnificent. Collectors of this series need not hesitate, and newcomers who try this volume are in serious danger of addiction’ (American Record Guide)

‘Superb … a disc to return to time and again’ (CDReview)