“For me, the lighter popular songs that conclude the disc, with Alder floating exquisitely soft high notes, take the prize.” ★★★ Performance ★★★★ Recording
Shortlisted Song CD for the Gramophone Awards 2022 & Editor’s Choice (June 2021) - “Here’s a peach of a recital disc, wonderfully programmed...At piano and pianissimo, Alder’s soprano possesses a lovely range of pastel colours.”
“Chère Nuit finds Louise Alder on glowing form, equalled in expression all the way by pianist Joseph Middleton...it’s Messiaen’s Trois Mélodies and four songs by Debussy that find them at their spellbinding best, Alder’s voice gauzy, supple and irresistible.”