Rating : - Another master craftsman of the French Chanson
This is an excellent companion to the glorious Faure Melodies, also from EMI. After listening to the Faure Melodies, I was really eager to hear more raw compositional genius pored into the duets between piano and voice, all with a foreground of French poetry and romaticism as technical as it is sublime. The voice and text are the foci. However, the piano is prominent as well. Debussy's dominance of the piano is readily apparent here as some of the passages just took my breath away in their deceptive simplicity.

Souzay, Ameling and Baldwin also sang on the Faure Melodies. They are completely solid here as well. I can not recommend this set enough for fans of any combination of the French language, French poetry, Impressionist music and the power of the human voice.