"The singing [is] especially first-class in the case of Andreas Schmidt, whose voice has a warm bloom throughout this recording, a satisfying buzz on the bottom, velvet sheen in his middle range, and a smooth, unstrained top. He is joined here by young Swiss soprano Noëmi Nadelmann…. Her sense of phrasing … is apt, and her voice has ingratiating warmth in soft passages…. Pianist Adrian Baianu, a faculty member of the Musikhochschule in Munich and student of some of the leading Lied specialists on his instrument, projects a firm and convincing concept of these songs, delineating their subtle balance between late 19th-century conventions and the impressionistic that are trademarks of the composer."—Fanfare