"Partnered by Malcolm Martineau, her selection includes the five Rückert Lieder, but otherwise focuses on early songs, with selections from Des Knaben Wunderhorn and the Lieder und Gesänge aus der Jugendzeit ... Karg's clear, bright soprano is better suited to the more pictorial Wunderhorn settings than to some of the more inward-looking Rückert songs, but her singing is always acutely sensitive, and she ends the disc with a fascinating novelty, two songs in which she is "accompanied" by Mahler himself".