Voyage à Paris is a 70-minute studio album of French art songs performed by Frederica von Stade with piano accompaniment by Martin Katz.

[1] The cover of the album was designed under the art direction of J. J. Stelmach, and features a photograph of von Stade and Katz taken by Carol Weinberg.

Her upper notes had begun to sound uncomfortable under stress - the "haute feuilles" ("high leaves") of Debussy's "L'ombre des arbres" were now only just accessible to her - but her fans would be happy to hear that her middle register remained "as delicately coloured ... as ever."

Her reading of Ravel's Cinq mélodies populaires grecques, for instance, lacked the rhythmic energy that Mady Mesplé had extracted from them in EMI's box set of the composer's songs.

[4] In Debussy's "C'est l'extase langoureuse", the first of his Ariettes oubliées, the languorous ecstasy was overdone - "the tempo is slowish and the portamentos droop wiltingly".

Frederica von Stade, he wrote, had "long made a speciality of early twentieth-century French art songs, and she brings her usual verve and charm to bear upon the ones in this generous collection".

"The ambitious Voyage à Paris recital", he wrote, "shows Poulenc and Messiaen as having common word-painting priorities, partly because [von Stade] calls attention more to the music than to herself.

"Voyage à Paris", he wrote, "... finds von Stade with ... autumnal tone, but the legato flows freely in the contemplative, handsomely turned mélodies by Satie, Poulenc, Honegger, Messiaen and others.