Browse: Vocal, Songs, Berlioz (composer)

Devieilhe’s singing lights up the good, the bad and the music of Ambroise Thomas with her vivid, pure tone and apparently limitless breath. Alexandre Tharaud pops in as a sensitive piano partner;... — BBC Music Magazine, January 2018 More…

This is special. Two extraordinary masterpieces...Two outstanding soloists thoroughly immersed in Berlioz’s music, partnered by an orchestra and conductor with an unsurpassed pedigree in the... — BBC Music Magazine, Christmas Issue 2022, 5 out of 5 stars (Performance) / 4 out of 5 stars (Recording) More…

This is utterly adorable from start to finish…In the booklet Piau speaks of her joy at performing this kind of repertoire and her rapture is palpable from the breathless opening moments of Saint-Saens’s... — BBC Music Magazine, August 2019, 5 out of 5 stars (Performance) / 4 out of 5 stars (Recording) More…

The Berlioz and Ravel cycles are natural partners, and Lemieux’s beguiling performance sets a formidable benchmark...Kazuki Yamada ensures that the Monte-Carlo players support every nuance, though... — BBC Music Magazine, November 2023, 4 out of 5 stars (Performance) / 3 out of 5 stars (Recording) More…

Sumptuous of tone, supremely sensitive, Crespin was born to illuminate the art of French song. Whether floating the seductive allure of Ravel or revelling in the wit of Poulenc these recordings... — BBC Music Magazine, November 2006, 5 out of 5 stars More…

Les Nuits d’été rapidly came to be seen as a vehicle for female voice. Stephane Dégout’s superb account makes clear this need not be so…Roth’s period-instrument ensemble Les Siècles provides... — BBC Music Magazine, March 2019, 5 out of 5 stars (Performance) / 4 out of 5 stars (Recording) More…

The songs are chosen, for the most part, with Véronique Gens’s voice in mind – no longer the bright soprano of 20 years ago, but now a warm and expressive mezzo, ideal in the more soulful melodies... — BBC Music Magazine, July 2020, 4 out of 5 stars More…