Hommage à Jodie Devos

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Devos, Jodie

Alpha 1191

Jodie Devos is sorely missed. Aged just thirty-five, she died on 16 June 2024. Wishing to perpetuate her memory and her art, we have decided to publish this boxed set containing all of the recordings she made for Alpha Classics over a period of ten years: six albums that bear witness to the exacting standards, sensitivity, eclecticism and curiosity of this unusual soprano who was loved by all. Also included is a concert she gave at the Gaume Festival in August 2017; this deeply moving programme reveals another side of Jodie, notably her love of American music and song, from Gershwin to Michel Legrand. All profits from the sale of this boxed set, which includes all the texts from the original albums, will be donated to the Jodie Devos Fund, created in 2025 to perpetuate the transmission and promotion of the operatic art that she held so dear.

Works:

CD 1
• "Offenbach Colorature" - Jacques Offenbach: Arien aus Boule de Neige, Vert-Vert, Orphee aux Enfers; Un Mari a la Porte, Fantasio, Les Bavards, Mesdames de la Halle, Le Roi Carotte, Les Bergers, Les Contes d'Hoffmann, Robinson Crusoe, Le Voyage dans la Lune (2017)CD 2
• "And Love said..." - Frank Bridge: come to me in my dreams; Love went a-riding / Irene Poldowski: To Love; Reeds of Innocence / Ralph Vaughan Williams: Let Beauty awake / Roger Quilter: Love's Philosophy / Ivor Gurney: Orpheus; Tears; Under the Greenwood Tree; Sleep; Spring / Benjamin Britten: Let the florid Musice praise; New the Leaves are falling fast; Seascape; Nocturne; As it is plenty / Darius Milhaud: Love, my Heart longs Day and Night; Peace, my Heart / Patrick Leterme: My Voice; Her Voice / William Walton: Daphne; Through gilded Trellises; Old Sir Faulk / Germaine Tailleferre: Tu mi chamas / Freddy Mercury: You take my Breath away (2020)CD 3
• "Bijoux Perdus" - Victor Masse: Air de la Lyre aus Galathee / Giacomo Meyerbeer: Air de Dinorah aus Le Pardon de Ploemel; Priere et Barcarolle aus L'etoile du Nord / Ambroise Thomas: Cavatine d'Elisabeth & Air d'Elisabeth aus Le Songe d'une Nuit d'Ete; Recit et Polonaise aus Mignon / Romental Halevy: Air de Jaguarita aus Jaguarita l'Indienne / Adolphe Adam: Air de Toinon aus Le Bijou Perdu / Daniel-Francois-Esprit Auber: Air de Manon aus Manon Lescaut; Air de Carlo aus Le Part du Diable (2021)CD 4
• Giovanni Battista Pergolesi: Stabat Mater ((Pariser Version 1769 für Sopran, Mezzosopran, Chor, Streicher) / Joseph Haydn: Symphonie Nr. 49 "La Passione" (2021)CD 5
• "Poetiques de l'Instant" - Claude Debussy: Proses lyriques; Streichquartett g-moll op. 10; Sonate für Flöte, Viola, Harfe / Yves Balmer: Fragments souleves par le Vent (2021) CD 6
• "Il etait une Fois" - Konzertante Oper für 2 Singstimmen & Klavierquartett, zusammengestellt und transkribiert von Alexandre Dratwicki. Mit Musik von Silver, Offenbach, Rile, Massenet, Viardot, Chausson, Rossini, Toulmouche, Severac, Schmitt, Serpette (2015)CD 7
• "Concert au Gaume Jazz Festival 2017" - Tell me the Truth about Love (Britten); Je te veux (Satie); The Man I love (Gershwin); I have a Love (Bernstein); Les Feuilles Mortes (Kosma); J'avais tellement peur de ne pas te trouver (Legrand); Summertime (Gershwin); My favourite Things (Rodgers) (mit Jean-Philippe Collard-Neven, Klavier; Steve Houben, Saxophon & Flöte; Jean-Louis Rassinfosse, (Kontrabass)

CD x 7

Alpha

3.11.2025

3701624511916

Diapason d'or / Folder End of Year 2025