Five-star review of 'The Food of Love' in the Daily Telegraph

Purcell: The Food of Love
Paul Agnew, Anne-Marie Lasla, Elizabeth Kenny, Blandine Rannou
★★★★★

Two of Purcell’s settings of If Music be the Food of Love – words by Henry Heveningham rather than Shakespeare – top and tail this delightful disc focusing on Purcell’s love songs but also embracing instrumental pieces by Francisco Corbetta, Christopher Simpson and Robert de Visée. Paul Agnew’s pure, golden tenor voice and verbal expressiveness are sensitively backed by period instruments to convey love’s agonies and joys. GN