Sandrine Piau - Si j'ai aimé - BBC Music Magazine

This is utterly adorable from start to finish…In the booklet Piau speaks of her joy at performing this kind of repertoire and her rapture is palpable from the breathless opening moments of Saint-Saens’s ‘Extase’. Soaring above the luminous timbres of Julian Chauvin’s period ensemble Le Concert de la Loge, Piau’s fresh-voiced delight infuses Berlioz’s ‘Villanelle’, Vierne’s ‘Beaux Papillons blancs’ and Bordes’s affable ‘Promenade matinale’.