Brahms: Ein Deutsches Requiem [German Requiem], Op. 45

"The intonation of some members of the Singverein occasionally wavers - there was no heating in the hall and some probably had not seen a decent meal for a week - but Karajan and Legge were endlessly patient and Schwarzkopf herself stood in the midst of the sopranos in many of the takes to give them added confidence and surety. The result is an articulation of the text so tender, so sad, so telling that one is no longer listening to a performance of a piece of music but to a sublime meditation on sacred texts by men and women all too acutely aware in the aftermath of war of the truth of the words and the sublimity of Brahms's setting of them" (Gramophone)

"I guess opinion on Schwarzkopf will be forever divided. Her voice is instantly recognisable, her diction impeccable. She sings with purity, and is generally steady in her number, "Ihr habt nun Traurigkeit". I have to confess that if pressed to find a weakness in this performance, Frau Schwarzkopf would be it. But many will disagree, I am sure." MusicWeb