And Love Said... Jodie Devos & Nicolas Krüger

• Frank Bridge (1879 - 1941):
• 1Bridge: Come to Me in My Dreams, H. 7103:50
• 2Bridge: Love Went A-Riding, H. 11401:58
• Irene Poldowski (1879 - 1932):
• 3Poldowski: Reeds of Innocence02:08
• Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872 - 1958):
• 4Williams: Songs of Travel: II. Let Beauty Awake02:08
• Roger Quilter (1877 - 1953):
• 5Quilter: Love's Philosophy01:22
• Ivor Gurney (1890 - 1937): Five Elizabethan Songs:
• 6Gurney: Five Elizabethan Songs: I. Orpheus02:17
• 7Gurney: Five Elizabethan Songs: II. Tears03:16
• 8Gurney: Five Elizabethan Songs: III. Under the Greenwood Tree01:38
• 9Gurney: Five Elizabethan Songs: IV. Sleep03:12
• 10Gurney: Five Elizabethan Songs: V. Spring02:32
• Irene Poldowski:
• 11Poldowski: To Love02:20
• Benjamin Britten (1913 -1976): On This Island, Op. 11:
• 12Britten: On This Island, Op. 11: I. Let the Florid Music Praise03:57
• 13Britten: On This Island, Op. 11: II. Now the Leaves Are Falling Fast02:02
• 14Britten: On This Island, Op. 11: III. Seascape02:18
• 15Britten: On This Island, Op. 11: IV. Nocturne04:49
• 16Britten: On This Island, Op. 11: V. As It Is, Plenty01:30
• Darius Milhaud (1892 - 1974):
• 17Milhaud: Two Love Songs, Op. 30: I. Love My Heart Longs Day and Night02:59
• Patrick Leterme (b. 1981): Two Poems by Oscar Wilde:
• 18Leterme: Two Poems by Oscar Wilde: I. My Voice02:03
• 19Leterme: Two Poems by Oscar Wilde: II. Her Voice04:11
• Darius Milhaud:
• 20Milhaud: Two Love Songs, Op. 30: II. Peace, My Heart03:18
• William Walton (1902 - 1983): Three Songs from "Façade":
• 21Walton: Three Songs from "Façade": Daphne02:46
• 22Walton: Three Songs from "Façade": Throufg Gilded Trellises03:57
• 23Walton: Three Songs from "Façade": Old Sir Faulk02:02
• Germaine Tailleferre (1892 - 1983): Tu mi chamas:
• 24Tailleferre: Tu mi chamas02:31
• Freddie Mercury (1946 - 1991):
• 25Mercury: You Take My Breath Away03:53
• Total Runtime01:08:57

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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

Jodie Devos, soprano
Nicolas Krüger, piano

Jodie Devos
After studying with Benoît Giaux and Élise Gäbele in Namur, Jodie Devos received a Master of Art degree in 2013 at the Royal Academy of Music of London in Lillian Watson’s class. She also attended master classes with H. Deutsch, J. Streets, D. Denize, C. Eda- Pierre or M. Minkowski. She is generously supported by Asbl Do Musica and the Thirionet funds.

In 2014 she was awarded the second prize and the audience prize at the prestigious Queen Elisabeth Competition. She is also the prizewinner of several national competitions such as the Bell’Arte competition, the Thirionet Funds, the Nouveaux Talents de l’Art lyrique and the Jacques Dôme Prize. She was nominated Artiste Jeune Talent for the year 2015 by the International Classical Music Awards (ICMA).

During her young career, she has already appeared under the direction of conductors such as Paolo Arrivabeni, Roland Boer, Laurent Campellone, Mikko Franck, Leonardo Garcia Alarcon, Dmitri Jurowski, Enrique Mazzola, Marc Minkowski, Christophe Rousset and Guy van Waas.

Jodie Devos has given numerous recitals and concerts all over the world in countries like Belgium (Gent, Antwerpen, Brussels), France (Paris), Germany (Düsseldorf), the Netherlands (Maastricht), India (Mumbay), Canada (Québec), Poland (Katowice) and also on tour in Brasil. She has also been invited in a number of Festivals (Stavelot, Juillet Musical de Saint-Hubert, Estivales en Médoc, Saint-Riquier).

In 2014, she joined the Opéra Comique Academy in Paris where she could be heard in La Chauve Souris (Ida and then Adèle) and Les Mousquetaires au Couvent. She has also sung at the Opéra Royal de Wallonie in Il Barbiere di Siviglia (Rosina) and Orphée aux Enfers (Eurydice), at the Opéra of Montpellier in L’Enfant et les sortilèges (le Feu, le Rossignol and la Princesse) and L’Hirondelle inattendue by Laks as well as in Geneviève de Brabant by Offenbach. More recently, she has made her debuts in Lakmé (title-role) in Tours and Die Zauberflöte (Königin der Nacht) in Dijon and in concert at the Philharmonie de Paris conducted by Christophe Rousset and Le Timbre d’argent by Saint-Saëns at the Opéra Comique, Pygmalion in Innsbruck with Les Talens Lyriques, Pelléas et Mélisande for her debut at the Paris National Opera…

In concert, she sang la Chauve-souris, la Chouette, une Pastourelle with the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France and le Feu, le Rossignol and la Princesse at the Orchestre Philharmonique de Monte Carlo in L’Enfant et les Sortilèges, Monsieur Beaucaire by Messager with the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, Pygmalion by Rameau conducted by Christophe Rousset in Potsdam, Le Chalet by Adam in Toulon, Mahler’s 4th symphony and Mozart Requiem with the Orchestre national de Belgique, Ein Sommernachtstraum by Mendelssohn with the Orchestre Philharmonique Royal de Liège, a concert at the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam with the Orchestre national de Belgique.

Among her future projects: Le Nozze di Figaro (Susanna), Le Comte Ory (Comtesse Adèle), Lakmé (title role), Rigoletto (Gilda), La Fille du régiment (Marie) at the Opéra Royal de Wallonie, Die Zauberflöte (Königin der Nacht) at La Monnaie in Brussels, Orphée et Eurydice with Les Talens Lyriques and Dialogues des Carmélites (Constance) in Toulouse, La Nonne Sanglante by Gounod at the Opéra Comique, Die Zauberflöte (Königin der nacht), Les Indes Galantes and Les Contes d’Hoffmann (Olympia) at the Opéra de Paris, Die Entführung aus dem Serail (Blondchen) in Monte Carlo, Guillaume Tell at the Chorégies d’Orange… She will also sing in concert at the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées, at the Wigmore Hall, at the Auditorium de Radio-France with the Orchestre national de France…

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