Composers: Brahms, Dvořák, Chausson, Stravinsky, Ravel
Compositions: Songs
Performers:Magdalena Kožená ms, Simon Rattle p
Catalogue Number: Pentatone PTC5186671

If you’ve ever fantasised about being invited round to mezzo Magdalena Kožená and Simon Rattle’s place for dinner, before listening in as husband and wife make some spontaneous chamber music together afterwards, then this is the disc for you.

We open in full spate with the unabashed sensuality of Chausson’s Chanson perpétuelle, which transfigures Charles...