"Recording of the month: In this outstanding Massenet album, Bru Zane presents a collection of twenty-two mélodies avec orchestra performed by six acclaimed singers of the French repertoire ... Bru Zane often use a single soloist its albums of mélodies by individual composers, but here the label has chosen six solo singers, all of whom have recorded previously for Bru Zane and the twenty-two mélodies avec orchestre have been shared pretty much evenly amongst them. Sopranos Véronique Gens, Jodie Devos and Chantal Santon-Jeffery, tenor Cyrille Dubois and baritone Étienne Dupuis are highly experienced performers of French opera and mélodies with impressive reputations ... In my view, Hervé Niquet has become the go-to conductor in French Romantic/Late Romantic repertoire and the results here don't disappoint. The Orchestre de Chambre de Paris plays with plenty of spirit and a thoughtful degree of sensitivity without any suggestions of mawkishness ... A credit to the Bru Zane label, this is a beautifully performed, recorded and presented release of unfamiliar orchestral mélodies from Massenet. I have nothing but praise for this outstanding album which must surely count as one of my Records of the Year".