All of the music on this album is also available as part of the specially priced box set The Complete Songs of Franz Schubert: ‘This is an archive of glorious Lieder singing as much as it is a definitive treasury of the greatest Lieder ever composed’ (The Guardian).
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‘Johnson and Goerne plumb the emotional depths of one of the most heart-wrenchingly sublime masterpieces in the genre … the one to knock Fischer-Dieskau and Gerald Moore from the pedestal’ (BBC M ... ‘Vocal technique and interpretive insights of the highest musical artistry. However many Winterreisen you may possess, you must have this one’ (The Sunday Telegraph) ‘Goerne sings with a rapt dedication that forces you to rethink each poem in the cycle’ (The Guardian)