Debussy - Songs For His Muse Vocal & Song Piano Deux-Elles

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Performance *** Recording *****

Roger Nichols - BBC Music magazine - April 2015

"Keith sings with poise, and she certainly possesses the necessary ease at the top, delivering without a hint of problem those rather cruel high notes which Debussy sudenly throws in, possibly just because he knew that, with such a technically well-equipped soloist at his disposal, he could. And there are ornaments of sheer, unarguable exquisiteness, as, for instance, in the arabesques of Les papillons, which she delivers with intoxicating radiance, or in the first song of Ariettes oubliées, ’C’est l’extase’, to which she brings an enveloping sensuality. Meanwhile Lepper is deserving of far more than a final couple of brief sentences. He is the exemplary collaborator, his playing full of subtle shading, aromatic poise and acuity of response."

Stephen Pettitt - International Record Review - March 2015

"Many of the songs here demonstrate just how precocious Debussy was, and just how apt his poetic sense. Keith’s bright, agile soprano is more suited to these than to the better-known later cycle Lepper finds all the light and shade these songs require of a pianist, and sound is warm and clear." ****

Guy Weatherall - Classical Music magazine - March 2015

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