French duets

Ravel’s Ma mère l’oye and Fauré’s Dolly are two of the highlights in this bewitching programme of music often associated with childhood—works which amply reward the care lavished on them by Paul Lewis and Steven Osborne in these exquisite accounts.

CDA68329  68 minutes 12 seconds
‘It’s hard not to go into auto-rave mode; and you’ll notice that, unusually, I haven’t worried about comparisons, for this needs none … this offers not only the perfect escape from our current lo ...
BBC Music Magazine
‘[Osborne and Lewis are] decorous guides to the old-world charms of [Debussy's] suite after delighting in the more piquant rhythms and harmonies of Poulenc's Sonata for four hands and the beautiful fa ...