THE CRITICS SAY:

“Lichti, singing more eloquently than I have ever heard him, filled his Elijah with conviction, passion and tenderness, pathos and power. His great aria It is enough was heartbreaking.”
Ken Winter, The Globe and Mail

“Lichti delivered a very human portrait of this troubled, broody and vengeful figure, his robust voice increasingly commanding, his sense of character as clear as his diction.”
Geoff Chapman, Toronto Star

“Bass Daniel Lichti was rock-solid, warm and engaging as always.”
Natasha Gauthier, Ottawa Citizen

“I can’t say enough about the music-making on this disc. It’s technically brilliant playing and singing offered with love and humility. Lichti is in great form…the whole recording is a delicate and graceful gift from a group of thoughtful souls.”
Larry Beckwith, Wholenote CD Discoveries (The Soulful Bach and Telemann, Centaur Records)

“While not cloying with sentimentality, the performance by Daniel Lichti and pianist Michael Laus brought out the concentrated, desolate emotional climate and the gloomy mood of the work. A spell was cast on the audience at the beginning of the performance and maintained throughout more than an hour of music. Müller had written about his desire to find “a kindred spirit…who will hear the melodies in the words and deliver them back to me”. In Schubert he found such a spirit and in Lichti and Laus the two artists found excellent interpreters.”
Cecilia Xuereb, The Sunday Times, Malta

“Mr. Lichti’s voice is ideally suited to the interpretation of lieder and he uses it to its maximum effect. What impressed me, apart from the rich resonance of his timbre was his total control and full understanding of each variation in mood.”
KZT, The Times of Malta

“…the linear clarity of baritone Daniel Lichti (who earlier in the “Confutatis” was at his resonant, vehement best) to open the “Lacrymosa” was most moving.”
Toronto Star

“As Winterreise is surely one of the most remarkable achievements in the art of song … Lichti’s lush and expressive bass baritone is supremely suited to its realization.”
David Olds, DISCoveries Editor, Wholenote

“Baritone Daniel Lichti echoed with his oak-solid masculine presence.”
Stephen Preece, The Record

“One of the strengths of this new version is how well Lichti captures the mental instability and frustration of the dejected lover. It’s always moving and sometimes gripping in its intensity…this is a sincere labor of love, full of life, intelligence and attention to text.”
Rick Philipps, Opera Canada review of Winterreise on Analekta

Daniel Lichti is firm and generously sonorous in the bass part. (Mozart Requiem)
The Calgary Herald

Daniel Lichti is a delight. Relaxed, feet planted firmly on the ground, he sings with honesty and fire. In "The People who walked in darkness" he put his sense of drama and tone color to work. Later he skillfully and energetically negotiated the notoriously rapid fioritura of "Why do the nations."
San Francisco Classical Voice - David Gordon

"She (Lisette Canton, Ottawa Bach Choir) has gathered a truly exceptional team of soloists—among the best I've ever heard. I've thrilled to the work of countertenor Daniel Taylor and tenor Benjamin Butterfield in fine recordings from Sony, Koch, and Dorian—they are just as impressive here. Soprano Agnes Zsigovics owns a limpid, emotionally naked instrument; her exquisite "Den Tod" duet with Taylor in the first cantata just about reduced me to tears. Bass Daniel Lichti's resonant singing is just as affecting. Just wait until you hear his rendition of "Hier ist das Rechte Osterlamm" (same cantata).
American Record Guide, July/August 2009 review of "Jesu, meine Freude" CD, by Ottawa Bach Choir & Baroque Orchestra/Lisette Canton

"Local favourite bass-baritone Daniel Lichti filled the great hall with stentorian vocal prowess, first as Priest, and later as the Angel of Agony. His parts, while much shorter than the other soloists, played a substantial role, heightening the drama and providing a contrasting male timbre. Lichti sang with conviction and authority, a burnished, solid tone, wonderfully deep and resonating."
Stephen Preece, for The Record, January 18, 2010

"Lichti, with his warm, gentle vibrato and smooth, soft grain, is in fantastic voice and sings these songs as if he has known them all of his life. Each one is full of musical and dramatic nuance. In "Was für ein Lied", for example, after singing "What song can I sing that would be worthy of you?" he pleads in hushed tones, "Where can I found one?" It is one of many wonderful moments.
From a review of Italienisches Liederbuch by Hugo Wolf on ANALEKTA by Neil Crory, for Opera Canada, Winter 2010