Browse: Chausson - Le Colibri, Op. 2 No. 7 (de Lisle)

The intimacy and tenderness which she and Lepper bring to Hahn's evergreen À Chloris is worth the price of the disc alone, but everything here is utterly beguiling, with the strings of the RSNO... — Katherine Cooper, Presto Music, September 2021 More…

…Piau's radiant tone, renowned clarity of diction and range of sensuous emotion make this a heavenly experience. — BBC Music Magazine, January 2008, 5 out of 5 stars More…

Philippe Jaroussky has a wide pitch range and absolute control throughout, with no tenseness at the top of hooting at the bottom, and his floated high notes are ravishing. Jérôme Ducros's accompanying... — BBC Music Magazine, April 2009, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Sophie Karthäuser and Eugene Asti are both accomplished mimics, and miss no opportunities among the larks (Lalo’s L’Alouette’), cicadas (Chabrier’s ‘Les Cigales’), cats (Rossini’s famous cat... — BBC Music Magazine, February 2019, 4 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…

Christine Schäfer brings concentration and poise to each of these songs, and sings seemingly effortlessly in her exquisite high lyric soprano … There is no feeling of routine in these studio... — MusicWeb International More…

The free-flowing late 19th-century Romanticism of Ernest Chausson overflows with colour and opulence. And if any voice was destined to match this music, it was that of Jessye Norman, whose account... — The Telegraph, 12th July 2008 More…