Nicky Spence and Julius Drake bring their trademark ‘thrilling ardour’ (BBC Record Review) to a recital of Fauré’s La bonne chanson & other songs. The composer’s song output spanned some sixty years, sustained by his melodic gifts and a talent for selecting first-rate texts by the greatest French poets of the day. The album begins with what surely represents the art of Fauré’s song writing at its peak, the impassioned cycle La bonne chanson, with the Piatti Quartet participating in the composer’s revised accompaniment for piano and string quintet.