COMPOSERS: Debussy,Delibes,etc,Massenet,Ravel,Saint-Saens
LABELS: Guild
ALBUM TITLE: Collection: Pastorale
WORKS: Works
PERFORMER: Vasari Singers/Jeremy Backhouse; Jeremy Filsell (piano)
CATALOGUE NO: GMCD 7199
Familiar choral tunes by Fauré and Canteloube rub shoulders here with many more unfamiliar ones: Saint-Saëns’s Deux chansons and the works by Delibes and Massenet being well worth the discovery. The Vasari Singers make questionable soloists but an accomplished ensemble.
Christopher Wood