This is quite simply marvellous. …an exquisitely planned collection of French music from the turn of the 20th century, bringing together, on the one hand, settings by Saint-Saëns, Pierné, Godard and Caplet of the same Victor Hugo poem, and, on the other, musical references to Pan, predominantly from Debussy.

Debussy's Chansons de Bilitis… are beautifully sung by Sandrine Piau, and Hervé Lamy is at his finest throughout. The flautist, Gilles de Talhouët, who presumably inspired the collection, plays Debussy's Syrinx exquisitely, and Arthur Schoonderwoerd, using an authentic 1907 Erard piano, presents the Epigraphes subtly and seductively.