"German baritone Matthias Goerne has never sounded more like his teacher Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau than he does here, with gentle, profoundly calm lines wrapping themselves around the livelier music of the Freiburger Barockorchester under director Gottfried von der Goltz. Some listeners have found Harmonia Mundi's sound engineering too smooth and gauzy when it comes to Goerne's voice, but one would guess that this was intentional ... Certainly there are other valid approaches to singing Bach, but this one is both beautiful and fully thought through"