Reynaldo Hahn’s music always rewards its listeners, offering glimpses of the composer’s soul through its refined surface.

Ailish Tynan and her duo partner James Baillieu present four of the Frenchman’s finest mélodies in company with Poulenc’s final song collection, La courte paille
(‘The short straw’), inspired by recollections of childhood, and the Trois poèmes de Louise de Vilmorin, written soon after the young composer’s return to Catholicism in the mid-1930s.