This fourth—and final—instalment in our series encompassing all Fauré’s songs takes as its title a line from La chanson d’Ève, the matchless cycle which confirmed its composer’s status as the master of French song and which concludes the Hyperion intégrale.

As with preceding volumes, Graham Johnson has employed a range of artists—the very finest interpreters of French song that could be found. Generous commentaries are provided for each song along with the original poems and English translations.

An alphabetical index to this four-disc cycle is printed in the booklet.