“… As soon as I heard this soft but urgent sparsely unaccompanied voice in Britten’s setting of ‘I Wonder as I Wander’ I knew something special was at hand. Newby has a lovely, lyrical, medium-weight baritone voice. His warm and burnished tone, precise articulation, skilled vocal coloring, and carefully nuanced attentiveness to the text equip him well as lieder interpreter… One admires his vocal control as he reduces his voice from full strength to a slender thread while retaining tonal quality. Newby is well prepared to be a major lieder singer for our time…Middleton is one of the best collaborative pianists of his generation. His command od dynamics, nuances of phrasing, and precise articulation are superb. Together this team has given us a splendid album. The engineering and technical aspects of this production with its first-class SACD sound are outstanding…”

"... The lieder are arranged round Beethoven’s cycle of distant love, with two of Schubert’s Wanderer Songs and a Mahler group that combines rare communicative zeal with nuanced insights, in a notable debut. "

"... an impressive debut from a young singer to watch."