Browse: Complete Songs of Poulenc (series)

These singers have come up with some of the most absorbing recorded experiences of a composer who, for all his unmistakable voice, had an extraordinarily broad range of expression and poetic... — BBC Music Magazine, September 2011, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Thomas Allen's delivery of [La bestiare] is suave and secure. In both cycles, Julian Bliss's clarinet playing stands out for silkiness of tone...Catherine Wyn-Rogers finds a steely sensuality... — BBC Music Magazine, October 2015, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Martineau's apparently limitless wisdom about the musicians, the music, and indeed the piano continues at full stretch. The uneasy postlude to 'Voyage', frmo Calligrammes, makes for one of his... — BBC Music Magazine, February 2012, 5 out of 5 stars More…

The programme has been thoughtfully chosen here to provide...contrasts between the perky Poulenc and the one who could cosset himself in his luxuriantly purple harmonies. The range of voices... — Gramophone Magazine, February 2014 More…

Alongside Malcolm Martineau's searching piano, the singers find a consistent character: considered, spacious, unaffected but cumulatively intense, to the extent that you may need to pause and... — BBC Music Magazine, June 2011, 5 out of 5 stars More…