Recital with Malcolm Martineau (piano) in Detmold, concert hall University of Music

“Vocals and piano merged in great symbiosis. Vocal tones of the most beautiful lightness crowned the piano’s floating whole-tone scales and created a spherical atmosphere. Again and again, Schwanewilms let her top notes swell sonorously. She stood there like a rock in the surf and mastered the cycle in the most beautiful sound poetry, in which voice and body became one. The duo unfolded the delicacy of the music with a dreamlike transparency and floating conciseness.“

Lippisches Kultur-Journal, 11 January 2024

Concert: Schönberg’s „Erwartung“ with the Symphony Orchestra Hamburg

„With the soprano Anne Schwanewilms, a vocally clever leading performer had been chosen; this Schönberg cannot use a diva, but only a fearless character singer who can nevertheless give support and form to the erratically fluttering text of the plot – woman wandering through the night, searching for her lover and ultimately finding his corpse – and the delicate challenges of this role. She succeeded impressively, also because Cambreling’s penchant for difficult modern classics was transferred to the shaping of the orchestra.“

Hamburger Abendblatt, Joachim Mischke, 20 June 2023

Review CD “Dennoch”

“The “Sieben frühe Lieder” by Alban Berg receive attention mainly in their orchestral version made by Berg himself, while their original version as a piano song cycle is neglected. Yet this piano version – and this is vividly demonstrated by the present recording – is the melodically more insistent, more differentiated and also more appropriate. And it certainly has a more intimate and atmospheric effect when it is interpreted just as simply but not reservedly, just as sensitively but not over-explicitly, as Anne Schwanewilms and Manuel Lange are able to do.

In the same way, they take on the piano song cycle “Dennoch” (Nevertheless), based on seven rhymeless poems by Hilde Domin, composed by Stefan Heucke for Anne Schwanewilms in 2018. (…) Schwanewilms’ bright, evenly timbrated soprano merges, as it were, with the gesture of Heucke’s melodicism, which can emerge all the more forcefully because Manuel Lange gives the piano part harmonically complementary contours. (…) The four Domin poems recited by Wolf-Dieter Rammler very sensibly complement the coherent program and refresh the attention.«

FONO FORUM, Giselher Schubert, May 2023

Concert with the National Theater Orchestra Mannheim conducted by Alexander Soddy, 2nd Symphony by Gustav Mahler, 13 June 2022.

“Luminously, the nobly timbrated soprano of Anne Schwanewilms rises from the sound layers…”

IOCO Culture Magazine, Uschi Reifenberg, 20 June 2022

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“In addition, the soprano Anne Schwanewilms contributed the ideal brilliant angelic sound.”

Onlinemerker, Dirk Schauß, 15 June 2022

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‚“(…) belongs just as much to the further highlights of this evening as the pure and at times almost vibrato-free soprano of Anne Schwanewilms in the final movement (…)”.

Mannheimer Morgen, Stefan M. Dettlinger, 15 June 2022

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“The hope of not having lived in vain is given quivering certainty by Anne Schwanewilms in her soprano solo”

Die Rheinpfalz, Uwe Rauschelbach, 15 June 2022

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“This transcendence was built on more and more in the final movement by the opera choir (rehearsed by Dani Juris) and soprano Anne Schwanewilms: with cultivated vocalization that let humility and reverence speak from the verses to the “Resurrection.””

Rhein-Neckar-Zeitung, Simon Scherer, 14 June 2022

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“Like a ray of light full of promise, Anne Schwanewilms’ wonderfully timbrated soprano voice, sure of the high notes, rose in the mighty chorale of the excellently formed NTM Choir-Extrachor (Dani Juris) additionally assisted by members of div. choirs in Mannheim. In splendid harmony, the two beautiful voices merged in the scherzo.”

Online Merker, Gerhard Hoffmann, 13 June 2022