Brahms - Serenade, Op. 70 No. 3

Bode sings [Sehnsucht and the Wiegenlied] with a fine sense of artistry and wonderment. Johnson takes care over his placing of Brahms's many folksong settings within this series, inserting a... — BBC Music Magazine, January 2012, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Johnson is alive to every juicy nuance of the richly detailed accompaniments. And although I was occasionally distracted by Appl’s closed vowels, which sometimes robbed the poetry of its immediacy,... — BBC Music Magazine, May 2018, 4 out of 5 stars More…