Browse: Ravel - Histoires naturelles (5)

Riches has the versatility to sound at home in any language or musical idiom. He possesses a natural authority that never has to strive for effect, and his warm, supple bass-baritone is eminently... — BBC Music Magazine, May 2021, 5 out of 5 stars More…

The performances exquisitely capture the shifting nuances and moods of a programme with a French bias, yet decidedly international in spirit…There is no doubt here that Stéphany’s is a highly... — BBC Music Magazine, May 2018, 4 out of 5 stars More…

[Gubisch] combines a beautiful voice with intelligence, crisp diction and a real sense of style...I would guess she's lived with this music for a long time...this is a disc from which young and... — BBC Music Magazine, Christmas 2012, 5 out of 5 stars More…

It feels inadequate…just to describe this enchanting new collection from Gerald Finley and Julius Drake as the best modern recital devoted to the wonderfully varied world of Ravel's songs. Finley... — BBC Music Magazine, July 2009, 5 out of 5 stars More…

France's equivalent of Fischer-Dieskau sings Fauré, Duparc and Ravel with characteristic expressive elegance that transcends the rather elderly recordings. — BBC Music Magazine, May 2006, 5 out of 5 stars More…

The voice - a natural for Pelléas, one would think - responds rapturously to Debussy and Verlaine's submarine wonders — Gramophone Magazine, April 2011 More…