Zigeunerlieder : songs & duets

"Vurdering: Editor's choice" - "In the Gypsy Melodies and the Love Songs, he achieves this partly by changing register for each verse, and as a performer he constantly varies repeated phrases with slight changes of articulation, accent and tone colour - an object lesson in the art of expressive performance. In most of these songs, moreover, Dvorak's melodic quality is strong enough to stand without text. And, in Ashkenazy's hands, the piano parts emerge as wonderfully colourful and evocative".

"Encouraged by Christoph Berner's zesty, colourful accompaniments, Genia Kühmeier and Bernarda Fink give thoroughly delightful performances, combining eager characterisation ... with a crucial sense of spontaneous enjoyment".

"What a lovely performance she gives. Almost all the songs are slow and with a less sensitive interpreter than Fink they can seem dull at times, but not here: calm, soothing, reverential, delicate but not dull ... Delights a-plenty come in Moravian Duets ... Anyone who has not yet obtained a version of Moravian duets need look no farther than this well-recorded, well-played, well-sung issue".