And Love Said...

 
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BRIDGE / POLDOWSKI / QUILTER / BRITTEN / WALTON etc
And Love Said...
Jodie Devos (soprano), Nicolas Krüger (piano)

[ Alpha Classics / CD ]

Release Date: Friday 5 March 2021

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'This programme reflects a personal journey: I am Belgian, I studied at the Royal Academy of Music in London, and now I live in France. I wanted to present composers from these three countries, taking as my cornerstone the English song repertory and the English language. It was Britten's On this Island that started me thinking in this direction. William Walton's Daphne and Ivor Gurney's tiny but intensely fresh Spring touch me enormously and form a part of my life experience. Nicolas Krüger and I then chose other songs that we liked, such as Let Beauty awake by Ralph Vaughan Williams... I also wanted to give my listeners a chance to hear French or Belgian composers who set English poems to music: Darius Milhaud, Germaine Tailleferre (one of those female composers who deserves to be better known) and Irene Poldowski... and to commission a work from the Belgian composer Patrick Leterme, who has often accompanied me... But I discovered Queen before I discovered opera. When I heard Freddy Mercury singing You take my breath away at the piano in Hyde Park, I was overwhelmed. I had to include that love song in my recital!' - Jodie Devos

GRAMOPHONE Award Nomination 2021 - Song

"Devos's genuine affection for this repertoire shines through…With Britten's cycle On this Island, Devos's sheer accuracy and panache outshines many sopranos on record." BBC Music

"The soprano's voice is clear and controlled, limpid but full of quiet strength, bright and healthy but with the slightest hint of a quivering vibrato...She's especially fine in the slower, seductive numbers, to which she brings a tender urgency and sensuality...In short: a recital that bristles with life and love, at once engaging, beguiling and moving. Highly recommended." Gramophone

Tracks:

FRANK BRIDGE
Come To Me In My Dreams
Love Went a-riding

IRENE POLDOWSKI
To Love
Reeds Of Innocence

RALPH VAUGHAN WILLIAMS
Let Beauty awake

ROGER QUILTER
Love's Philosophy

IVOR GURNEY
Orpheus
Tears
Under The Greenwood Tree
Sleep
Spring

BENJAMIN BRITTEN
Let The Florid Music Priase
Now the leaves are falling fast
Seascape
Nocturne
As it is, plenty

DARIUS MILHAUD
Love, my heart longs day and night
Peace, my heart

PATRICK LETERME
My Voice
Her Voice

WILLIAM WALTON
Daphne
Through Gilded Trelises
Old Sir Faulk

GERMAINE TAILLEFERRE
Tu mi chamas

FREDDIE MERCURY
You take my breath away

And Love Said