Visions Illuminées
Mary Bevan (soprano), Joseph Middleton (piano), 12 Ensemble, Ruisi Quartet
Awards:
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Presto Editor's Choice, February 2023
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2023
The heart of the recital is a radiantly searching performance of Britten’s Les illuminations...Bevan’s ability to combine warmth with refreshing vigour is to the fore in Chausson’s Chanson perpétuelle...
Visions Illuminées
Mary Bevan (soprano), Joseph Middleton (piano), 12 Ensemble, Ruisi Quartet
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Awards:
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Presto Editor's Choice, February 2023
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2023
The heart of the recital is a radiantly searching performance of Britten’s Les illuminations...Bevan’s ability to combine warmth with refreshing vigour is to the fore in Chausson’s Chanson perpétuelle...
About
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” - Mary Bevan
Contents and tracklist
- Mary Bevan
- 12 Ensemble
- Mary Bevan
- 12 Ensemble
- Mary Bevan, Joseph Middleton
- 12 Ensemble
- Mary Bevan, Joseph Middleton
- 12 Ensemble
- Mary Bevan, Joseph Middleton
- 12 Ensemble
- Mary Bevan
- 12 Ensemble
- Mary Bevan
- 12 Ensemble
- Mary Bevan, Joseph Middleton
- Ruisi Quartet
- Mary Bevan, Joseph Middleton
- Ruisi Quartet
- Mary Bevan, Joseph Middleton
- Ruisi Quartet
- Mary Bevan, Joseph Middleton
- Ruisi Quartet
- Mary Bevan, Joseph Middleton
- Ruisi Quartet
Spotlight on this release
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Mary Bevan on Visions Illuminées
28th Feb 2023
The British soprano discusses her new album with 12 Ensemble, the Ruisi Quartet and Joseph Middleton on Signum, featuring works by composers including Britten, Chausson, Holmès, and Ravel & Debussy (via Robin Holloway).
Awards and reviews
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Presto Editor's ChoiceFebruary 2023
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Presto Recordings of the YearFinalist 2023
April 2023
The heart of the recital is a radiantly searching performance of Britten’s Les illuminations...Bevan’s ability to combine warmth with refreshing vigour is to the fore in Chausson’s Chanson perpétuelle and the Debussy songs grouped by Holloway as Quatre mélodies de Verlaine.
February 2023
Part of the pleasure of this gorgeous, cleverly-curated recital comes from the variety of instrumental forces on the menu; intuitive but never hackneyed, Robin Holloway's arrangements of Debussy and Ravel hit the mark in the same way as Alexander Schmalcz's Schubert orchestrations for Matthias Goerne at the beginning of the year. The rest comes from Bevan's own variety of vocal colour and her ability to shape-shift between styles.
16th April 2023
Bevan has become a real master of French song; her diction is impeccable even in the most agile and rapid songs, and her singing in the quieter songs has a delicious tenderness and intimacy...In all this CD is a wonderful introduction to the perfumed, erotically charged world of French song at its height.
