Wanderer

"Still, hearing a countertenor sing anything written between the years of 1700 and 1900 ... takes a moment of aural recalibration. Scholl brings the same commitment to the Classical and Romantic repertory as he does to Purcell and Dowland. His priorities, as he states on the packaging, are 'simplicity and sincerity' ... As a recitalist, Scholl is less a story-teller than a weaver of spells, unleashing a fully conceived emotional state and sustaining it".

"Nogen vil spidse ører over at høre lieder og sange af Schubert, Brahms, Mozart og Haydn sunget af en kontratenor ... For Andreas Scholl er det historisk korrekte ikke det vigtigste her ... Han ser sig først og fremmest som musiker".

"A Lieder recital given by a countertenor is an unfamiliar experience. The purity of Andreas Scholl's voice, the unfailing exactness of his intonation, and the lack of any kind of excess in his singing make his performance of the songs on this disc also a most satisfying experience. This is not least because the particular quality of the countertenor sound, combined with much musical intelligence, creates a kind of distance between the singer and the listener ... without the limitation of the ordinary sense that the song belongs to a man or a woman".