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• Bennett's epigrammatic settings of nursey rhymes (written for this singer), sung with no trace of condescension or irony, but with a light touch all the same: just right.
  Piers Burton-Page, International Record Review, 01 January 2006
• [The Songs before Sleep] are utterly delightful, each with a lively and pianistically tricky accompaniment immaculately played by Malcolm Martineau. Perhaps a personal reminiscence is in order, as I must surely be of the last generation of children brought up to fear the terrors of Bonaparte in the rhyme Baby, baby, naughty baby, 'as he gallops past the house' and the awful fate of infants who crossed his path: 'limb from limb at once he'll tear you, just as pussy tears a mouse'.
  John Steane, The Gramophone, 01 December 2005