Mary Bevan, soprano
Roger Vignoles, piano
Voyages (dans la lumière)
Mary Bevan released her debut solo disc, Voyages, in 2017 (with pianist Joseph Middleton on the Signum label), which explores the music of eminent French composers and the settings they wrote for the poems of Charles Baudelaire. For this recital, Mary revisits her favourite repertoire from Voyages, including songs by Duparc, Fauré, Debussy, Chabrier, and more, but this time, each song is paired with another by a female composer writing around the same time. In this way, the recital seeks to bring the female composers from out of the shadow of their male counterparts and restore them to their rightful places as composers of equal quality and interest.
Henri Duparc: “L’invitation au voyage”
Lili Boulanger: “Le Retour”
Amy Beach: “Je demande à l’oiseau” from Four Songs, op. 51
Déodat de Séverac: “Les Hiboux” from Deux Mélodies Nouvelles
Jeanne Landry: “Mort quand tu me viendras prendre”
Gabriel Fauré: “Chant d’automne” from Three Songs, op. 5
Henri Duparc: “La vie antérieure”
Nadia Boulanger: “Soleils couchant”
Claude Debussy: “Le jet d’eau” from Cinq poèmes de Baudelaire
Pauline Viardot: “Lamento - la chanson du pêcheur”
Henri Duparc: “Romance de Mignon”
Mel Bonis: “Songe” from Trois Mélodies, op. 91
Pierre de Bréville: “Harmonie du soir”
Marguerite Canal: “Les Roses de Saâdi”