Schubert - Lebensmut D883 (Ernst Schulze)

His colourful baritone - mellow and ductile, yet with an incisive cutting edge where apt - is a pleasure in itself, and his response to each of these songs immediate and individual. Nothing... — Gramophone Magazine, June 2026More…

This disc, the last in Hyperion's Schubert Edition, is in large part devoted to the performance of the non-cycle Schwanengesang, that extraordinary collection in which Schubert seems more original... — Gramophone Classical Music Guide, 2010More…

Schubert's recurring themes of death, night and wandering shape a thoughtful, expressive and beautiful recital by this baritone and accompanist. — BBC Music Magazine, September 2014, 4 out of 5 starsMore…

Reviewers have long since run out of adjectives to describe Graham Johnson's superb complete Schubert song series for Hyerion. Now, for the Schubert centenary year, comes a re-release of a Schubertide... — The SingerMore…

...for consistently high standards, thoughtfulness, sensitivity to words, perception and poetic instinct, not to mention the sheer quality of Fischer-Dieskau's singing, this has to be one of... — Gramophone Magazine, January 2006More…

Thirty-two discs are devoted to Schubert and 12 apiece to Wolf, Brahms and Schumann. That still leaves many others, each a witness to his specially penetrating delivery of the words...The recordings... — The Times, 7th December 2022, 4 out of 5 starsMore…