"Soirée, Magdalena Kožená's second album for Pentatone, has turned to the relaxed, intimate atmosphere of the salon or parlour. Kožená has selected thirty songs from the pens of Chausson, Dvořák, Brahms, Stravinsky, Ravel, Janáček and Richard Strauss. Her chamber accompaniment is a combination of string quartet, clarinet, flute and the piano (played by her husband Simon Rattle) ... Kožená is very much at home in this repertoire. Her beautifully produced, glowing tone absorbingly catches the predominantly fleeting moods of these parlour songs. She is accompanied by a mix of seven instrumentalists, whose playing is first-rate ... Magdalena Kožená is at her most engaging in this exquisitely performed chamber collection of songs".