Paula released Poulenc: La Voix Humaine with pianist Sergey Rybin in March 2024 to much critical acclaim.

“Soprano Paula Sides has been singing Fiançailles pour rire since her student days, so she is obviously an expert, but she puts all her vocal and dramatic gifts into Elle. She takes Poulenc’s musical structure and alternates dramatic effects with restrained, almost exhausted semi-spoken ones. Her abilities perhaps manifest themselves best in the mixture of pathos and resignation that she brings to her pronunciation of the words toi (you) and rien (nothing). Pianist Sergei Rybin brings the same scope of emotions to the accompaniment. He is especially good in the performance of Poulenc’s “empty” chords in parts of La voix humaine. This is a worthy disc”. William Kreindler, Music Web International”

Full review: https://musicwebinternational.com/2024/09/poulenc-fiancailles-pour-rire-la-voix-humaine-voces8-records/#:~:text=Soprano%20Paula%20Sides%20has%20been,almost%20exhausted%20semi%2Dspoken%20ones.

“Sides never pushes Elle over the limit, she remains poised and direct, yet she uses the space to make each word, each syllable come out in its own distinctive way. Like Rybin's piano, Sides' Elle is full of colour, timbre and meaning. This attention to detail, combined with Sides' use of vibrato in her voice, gives Elle a certain fragility, this is a profoundly touching account of the opera, especially as we move towards the end. But underlying this is the inner strength of Sides' voice [this is a soprano who has sung roles like Donizetti's Lucrezia Borgia for ETO, see my review].” – Robert Hugill

Full review: https://www.planethugill.com/2024/06/taking-womans-side-poulencs-la-voix.html