Wide-ranging elegance from Sandrine Piau
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‘The persistent ‘Baroque specialist’ label hardly sums up this distinguished French soprano. With her distinctively radiant, secure tone and cut-crystal upper range, her repertoire has always been much wider.’
Chimère
Works by Debussy, Poulenc, Previn, R Schumann, Wolf, Baksa, Barber, Gurney and Loewe
Sandrine Piau (soprano), Susan Manoff (piano)
Alpha Classics ALPHA 397 58:27 mins
Authors
Freya Parr is BBC Music Magazine's Digital Editor and Staff Writer. She has also written for titles including the Guardian, Circus Journal, Frankie and Suitcase Magazine, and runs The Noiseletter, a fortnightly arts and culture publication. Freya's main areas of interest and research lie in 20th-century and contemporary music.