Utwory na płycie:

• Clair de Lune
• Les Illuminations Mvt 1 - Fanf
• Les Illuminations Mvt 2 - Vill
• Les Illuminations Mvt 3a - Phr
• Les Illuminations Mvt 3b - Ant
• Les Illuminations Mvt 4 - Roya
• Les Illuminations Mvt 5 - Mari
• Les Illuminations Mvt 6 - Inte
• Les Illuminations Mvt 7 - Bein
• Les Illuminations Mvt 8 - Para
• Les Illuminations Mvt 9 - Depa
• Les Grands vents venus d'outre
• Un Grand Sommeil Noir
• Si Morne
• Chanson Triste
• Tes Yeux Bleus
• Chanson Perpetuelle
• La mer est plus belle
• Mandoline
• Le son du cor s'afflige
• L'echelonnement des haies
• Serenade printaniere
• Serenade d'Ete
• Serenade d'Automne
• Serenade d'hiver
• Serenade de toujours

Gabriel Fauré:
Clair de Lune, Op. 46 No. 2

Benjamin Britten:
Les Illuminations, Op. 18

Maurice Ravel:
Un grand sommeil noir (arr. Robin Holloway)

Henri Duparc:
Chanson triste

Emmanuel Chabrier:
Tes yeux bleus

Ernest Chausson:
Chanson perpétuelle, Op. 37

Claude Debussy:
Quatre Mélodies de Verlaine (arr. Robin Holloway)

Augusta Holmés:
Sérénades

Her third recital album on Signum Records, celebrated soprano Mary Bevan returns with a selection of French songs, featuring works by composers including Britten, Ravel, Debussy and Faure.

“Over the years since the release of my debut album Voyages with Joseph Middleton in 2017, my passion for French mélodie has grown and deepened...The texts that composers of mélodie have set to music contain a depth and a mystery that I find fascinating and a source of repeated inspiration... My idea for the album began simply with a desire to record Britten’s Les Illuminations, a work I feel closely connected to, having performed it many times over the years and each time having found something new in it to interest me”.

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Recorded in All Hallows’ Church, Gospel Oak, London, UK from 16th to 19th March 2022.