CD, Hahn, R (composer)

Forbidden, yet seldom forbidding, Appl’s exquisitely cultivated fruits are ripe for plucking, and deserve to be consumed with unalloyed relish! — BBC Music Magazine, September 2023, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Spanning four centuries, this gorgeous recital from a couple who were brought together through a mutual love of French Baroque is absolutely hypnotic stuff...Desandre's limpid, flexible mezzo... — Katherine Cooper, Presto Music, October 2023 More…

An unusual song recital...The twin pillars of the disc are Hahn’s remarkable Etudes Latines in a rare complete performance and Debussy’s cantata La Damoiselle élue. Heard in an effective two-piano... — BBC Music Magazine, March 2022, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Connolly woos her audience with the calling-card for any and every mezzo: Haydn's dramatic cantata, Arianna a Naxos. And every second of its nervous and emotional life - its hopes, fears and... — BBC Music Magazine, March 2006, 5 out of 5 stars More…

This fizzing, multilingual Venetian 'Souvenir' slips down as gratefully as Prosecco on a hot day. Hahn's Venezia is a delicious epilogue. — BBC Music Magazine, February 2006, 4 out of 5 stars More…

My Favourites represents her own top choices and certainly showcases her amazing technical skills, never more fully on display than in this truly astonishing ‘Ah! non giunge’… Occasionally her... — BBC Music Magazine, May 2021, 4 out of 5 stars More…

The real news is a hitherto unreleased account of Liszt’s Transcendental Études, S139, Dalberto’s reasoning for his change of heart being that after a period of 32 years he is able to listen... — Gramophone Magazine, February 2019 More…