“…The German Nadja Michael was a complete delight from beginning to end. She sang her mezzo role with great musical phrasing and a fine understanding of the text. She showed total control over the full range of Mahler’s register of expression: in her interpretation of the last movement: In ‘Der Abschied’: her voice was light and slender when she sang about the cool shadows of the spruces; it became dark and lustrous in the second movement’s lament over an unhappy life, and she ultimately blended it completely down and let it sound unaccented in the repeated, falling phrase ‘ewig, ewig’, while only one woodwind kept an insistant hope alive…”
Peter Larsen, Bergens Tidende