This disc from tenor Nicky Spence and pianist Malcolm Martineau blows the dust off some worthwhile songs from Debussy and his French contemporaries. André Caplet’s three Prières have gently roaming vocal lines in the vein of his friend’s opera Pelléas et Mélisande; things intensify in the Apostles’ Creed, in which the piano especially takes passionate flight. This, like everything else here, is beautifully played by Martineau. Spence’s tenor may lack the ideal silkiness, but he is an engaging singer with a vibrant sound, capable of soaring above the detailed, shimmering accompaniments of Lili Boulanger’s 13 Clairières dans le Ciel, the sixth of which is unabashedly under the influence of Wagner’s Tristan und Isolde. Debussy’s Trois Mélodies de Verlaine are from a similarly misty, symbolist world. Written in 1891, these anticipate the 20th century; six contemporaneous songs by Cécile Chaminade look back to the 19th, but are lively and charming for all that.