"Hers is a lyric coloratura voice of real beauty and flexibility. There's a dash of cream to it, and she phrases with instinctive musicality and feel for line, meaning that her Bellini and Donizetti, in particular, have a real seductiveness to them ... Yende isn't quite the finished product - and recital discs rarely show singers at their best ... [But she] is clearly a major talent, and one who is only going to get better".