Bijoux Perdus

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With her small, neat, exact voice and clear diction, Jodie Devos is well suited to such material, which she articulates clearly, getting around the notes with considerable fluency – if with a... — BBC Music Magazine, November 2022, 3 out of 5 stars (Performance) / 4 out of 5 stars (Recording) More…

Release Date: 23rd Sep 2022
Catalogue No: ALPHA877
Label: Alpha
Length: 64 minutes

Presto Editor's Choice

September 2022
Presto Recordings of the Year

Finalist 2022
International Classical Music Awards

2023

Nominated - Vocal Music
International Opera Awards

2023

Nominated - Recording (Solo Recital)

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Massé, V: Que dis-tu? (from Galathée)

Work length8:16

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Jodie Devos (soprano)
Brussels Philharmonic
Pierre Bleuse

Meyerbeer: Ombre légère (from Le Pardon de Ploërmel)

Work length8:35

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Jodie Devos (soprano)
Brussels Philharmonic
Pierre Bleuse

Thomas, Ambroise: Le voir ainsi (from Le songe d'une nuit d'été)

Work length4:40

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Jodie Devos (soprano)
Brussels Philharmonic
Pierre Bleuse

Halévy: Jaguarita l'Indienne

Work length11:30

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Jodie Devos (soprano)
Brussels Philharmonic
Pierre Bleuse

À moi, ma cohorte guerrière (Jaguarita, Chœur)

Track length5:27

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Approchons, approchons (Jaguarita, Chœur)

Track length3:48

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Et maintenant filles des bois (Jaguarita, Chœur)

Track length2:15

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Adam: Pour rester en cette demeure (from Le bijou perdu)

Work length3:37

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Jodie Devos (soprano)
Brussels Philharmonic
Pierre Bleuse

Auber: Plus de rêve qui m'enivre (from Manon Lescaut)

Work length8:04

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Jodie Devos (soprano)
Brussels Philharmonic
Pierre Bleuse

Auber: Le singulier récit qu’ici je viens d’entendre! (from La part du diable)

Work length5:15

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Jodie Devos (soprano)
Brussels Philharmonic
Pierre Bleuse

Excerpt, Meyerbeer: L'étoile du nord

Work length4:49

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Jodie Devos (soprano)
Brussels Philharmonic
Pierre Bleuse

Veille sur eux toujours (Catherine)

Track length2:14

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Allons donc, plus de tristesse

Track length2:35

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Thomas, Ambroise: C’est un rêve qui s’achève à l’instant (from Le songe d'une nuit d'été)

Work length3:39

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Jodie Devos (soprano)
Brussels Philharmonic
Pierre Bleuse

Thomas, Ambroise: Oui, pour ce soir je suis reine des fées! (from Mignon)

Work length6:01

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Jodie Devos (soprano)
Brussels Philharmonic
Pierre Bleuse

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After her triumph with the album Offenbach Colorature (ALPHA437), Jodie Devos has chosen to follow in the footsteps of one of her compatriots, the Belgian coloratura soprano Marie Cabel (1827 -1885), who at the age of twenty-six scored a phenomenal success in Adolphe Adam’s opéracomique Le Bijou perdu, which she premiered in Paris. She then took on a more dramatic role in Halévy’s Jaguarita l’Indienne, whose great Invocation with chorus (‘À moi ma cohorte!’) again hit the bullseye in a run of 124 performances over just a few months. Cabel enjoyed one hit after another, in Auber’s Manon Lescaut and La Part du diable, Meyerbeer’s L’Étoile du Nord and Le Pardon de Ploërmel, Victor Massé’s Galathée, and Le Songe d’une nuit d’été by Ambroise Thomas, who in 1866 gave her the biggest role of her career: Philine in Mignon, based on Goethe. In partnership with the musicologists of the Palazzetto Bru Zane, who have resurrected and edited all these unjustly forgotten rarities, and Pierre Bleuse conducting the Brussels Philharmonic and the Flemish Radio Choir, Jodie Devos pays tribute to this star of the nineteenth century, whose audacity and sense of mischief she undoubtedly shares!

Reviews

November 2022

With her small, neat, exact voice and clear diction, Jodie Devos is well suited to such material, which she articulates clearly, getting around the notes with considerable fluency – if with a certain selfconsciousness. There’s an appealing tang to the tone and an ability to fine the tone down where necessary.

May/June 2023

Devos is again wonderful. Her warm voice comes flying out of the grooves, and one can sit back and just revel in it. The orchestra is idiomatically led by Pierre Bleuse. Alpha provides a warm and balanced acoustic and, with such rare material, it most gratefully provides useful notes, texts, and translations. Do not hesitate: Go out and buy!

February 2023

Jodie Devos is the right candidate to showcase this kind of repertoire...there is plenty of characterization amid the swirl of vocal acrobatics and decorations.

September 2022

The Belgian soprano's small but perfectly-formed voice really does glitter in this constellation of forgotten French operatic gems - and there's more than enough light and shade in terms of both timbre and repertoire to ensure that the dazzle never becomes relentless. I loved Elizabeth I's lament over a drunken Shakespeare from Thomas's Le songe d'une nuit d'été and the rousing call-to-arms from Halévy's Jaguarita l'Indienne, and there's a lovely opportunity to hear Auber's Manon emerge from the shadows of Massenet and Puccini…

23rd September 2022

No strain, no squawking, just a lively pirouetting voice hitting an impossible bull’s-eye: it’s a spine-tingling sensation...whatever the tone, whatever the French opera, Devos remains a compelling performer.

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