"the guardian" reviewing the 2013 cardiff singer of the world results: "she is a great artist, no question, with an imperturbable steadiness of tone, and a nobility of utterance that invites comparison not so much with her contemporaries as with mid-20th century greats such as kirsten flagstad and karin branzell...her performance of unbewegte laue luft, marked her out as one of the great brahms interpreters of our times."