Following their success last year with Fleurs, a posy of perfumed flower songs, Carolyn Sampson and Joseph Middleton gather together another colourful bouquet, this time settings of Verlaine by, among others, Debussy, Poldowski, Ravel, Szulc, de Séverac and Fauré. Sampson adores these songs, caressing the text with her beautiful, pure soprano, particularly those that dwell on the correlation between nature and the emotions. Her partnership with Middleton is inspired, his intelligence always evident, particularly in the adventurous modulations of Fauré’s La bonne chanson, Op 61.
