Satie & Compagnie. Queffélec.

   in Classical Music (Feb, 2013)
In as delightful a recital as this reviewer hopes to hear this year, Queffelec has crafted an inspired 80-minute sequence anchored around some of Satie’s best-known works – Gnossiennes, Gymnopedies, etc – and rarities by Deodat-de Severac, Reynaldo Hahn and Charles Koechlin, which rub shoulders with Poulenc’s Pastourelle and Debussy’s Clair de lune. As the description says: ‘The pathways of French music are many and varied – and immensely colourful’. Just wonderful! …