Crumb:
Three Early Songs
Apparition
Purcell:
Music for a while, Z583
If music be the food of love
Ah! how sweet it is to love (from Tyrannic Love or The Royal Martyr, Z613)
Thrice happy lovers (An Epithalamium)
Sweeter than Roses
From Rosy Bowers (From Don Quixote)
Not all my torments can your pity move, Z400
Crown the altar
Dido and Aeneas:
Dido's Lament 'When I am laid in earth'

Gramophone Magazine

March 2008

“The first part of the disc intersperses Crumb's moderately Coplandesque Three Early Songs (1947) with Purcell favourites like "Sweeter than Roses" and "Music for a While". The sovereign authority of Schäfer's voice and the intensity of her presence makes for a seamless narrative, and the clarity of her diction and innate dramatic sensibility revitalise the Purcell works.”

BBC Music Magazine

January 2008

****

“Given Christine Schäfer's wide-ranging repertoire, this mixing of 17th-century English and 20th-century American songs is no surprise. Her exemplary clarity of tone and diction, and her emotional commitment to both composers, make for a powerful recital.”