Album of the week on BR-Klassik "An album with a program so intelligent, intellectually convincing and emotionally moving is extremely rare. Soprano Anna Prohaska succeeds in presenting such a concept album for the third time now, and her latest CD may be her most beautiful in this regard.“ Anna Prohaska har det rette svirp i stemmen til at fuldbyrde Blakes og Brittens intentioner, men nådestødet ligger i Drakes hvidglødende naglehamrende klaverspil. Da Prohaska og Drake til tekst og musik af Olivier Messiaen fremelsker en grøn due fra himlens dyb, dæmrer det for den lyttende, at det bliver Julius Drake, som man for alvor vil huske på denne rejse gennem paradisiske syner og tab. Men helt ukrediteret på indspilningen følger så Julius Drakes arrangement af folkesangen »I will give my love an apple«. Så har Anna Prohaska til fulde nået det æteriske. Et lysfantom har gæstet os. WEEKENDAVISEN. The gestation of this project lasted two years. Anna Prohaska and Julius Drake finally concentrated their research on the themes of Eve, Paradise and banishment. Some songs were obvious choices, such as Fauré’s Paradis, in which God appears to Eve and asks her to name each flower and animal, or Purcell’s Sleep, Adam, sleep with its references to Genesis. But Anna Prohaska also wished to illustrate the cliché of the woman who brought original sin into the world and her status as a tempter who leads man astray, as in Brahms’s Salamander, Wolf’s Die Bekehrte or Ravel’s Air du Feu. In Das Paradies und die Peri, Schumann conjures up the image of Syria’s rose-covered plains. Bernstein also transports us to the desert with Silhouette. . . John Milton’s seventeenth-century masterpiece Paradise Lost was the inspiration for Charles Ives and Benjamin Britten, also featured in this very rich programme that constitutes an invitation to travel and reflection.