By Michael Church [The Independent, 6 December 2010]

This was a concert of which one had high hopes. The French soprano Sandrine Piau - a renowned Baroque exponent - would sing Purcell’s sacred songs accompanied by harpsichordist Christophe Rousset and his distinguished Talens Lyriques colleagues, Elizabeth Kenny on the lute and Laurence Dreyfus on the viola da gamba.