Reynaldo Hahn – Songs

Stephen Layton

Diapason d’or, France
Gramophone Critics’ Choice

The Sunday Times
This gorgeous set … Irresistable

The Sunday Telegraph
What treasures are here … The two discs provide an unmissable opportunity to explore a composer who is underrated and overlooked perhaps because he was too modest about himself. There are melodies here which Massenet, Debussy, Fauré and Ravel would have been proud to call their own. No one can fail to have their musical horizon broadened by these discs, which will assuredly come high among my Records of the Year, any year

Répertoire, France
Ces chanteurs brittaniques interprètent ces petits bijoux avec soin touchant. Par la qualité du phrasé, ils lui restituent sa qualité essentielle, le sens du mot et de la ligne mélodique

Diapason, France
Graham Johnson choisir ses chanteurs qui possèdent une musicalité irréprochable et un français non seulement intelligible mais évocateur - et de les accompanger avec tant de poésie

Gramophone
Some fascinating rarities

The Sunday Telegraph
RECORD OF THE YEAR. These discs have given me as much pleasure as any I have heard this year ... to hear Felicity Lott in 'Les Etoiles', Susan Bickley in 'Offrande' and Ian Bostridge in 'Tyndaris' is to relish some of the most accomplished vocal artistry of the day

The Observer
Towonderful songs … [the artists] bring delicacy, grace, an emotion the more poignant for being understated … Not to be missed

Hi Fi News
This is music for the intellect, interpreted with the utmost sensitivity

Fi, USA
For the best song-singing I've heard in many moons this is the one

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