Brahms Complete Lieder Edition

Andreas Schmidt tackles [the Four Serious Songs], bringing a dark, brooding quality to the sombre gravitas of these moving reflections on life and death...Juliane Banse's two contributions...are... — BBC Music Magazine, August 2010, 3 out of 5 starsMore…

Banse and Vermillion set up a lively dialogue between youth an age, innocence and experience in 'Sommerabend' and 'Der Kranz'. And the plangency within Banse's soprano makes her a properly... — BBC Music Magazine, November 2004, 4 out of 5 starsMore…

Of all the leading composers of Lieder, Brahms suffers more than any other through neglect, with so little of his output in the field ever appearing on recital programmes. There's some reason... — Gramophone Classical Music Guide, 2010More…