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Mary Bevan, soprano
Roger Vignoles, piano 

Voyages (dans la lumière)  
Duparc: “L’invitation au voyage”
Lili Boulanger: “Le Retour”

Amy Beach: “Je demande à l’oiseau” from Four Songs, Op. 51
Déodat de Séverac: “Les Hiboux” from Deux Mélodies Nouvelles

Jeanne Landry: “Mort quand tu me viendras prendre” 
Fauré: “Chant d’automne” from Three Songs, Op. 5

Duparc: “La vie antérieure”
Nadia Boulanger: “Soleils couchant”

Debussy: “Le jet d’eau” from Cinq poèmes de Baudelaire
Pauline Viardot: “Lamento – la chanson du pêcheur”

Duparc: “Romance de Mignon”
Mel Bonis: “Songe” from Trois Mélodies, Op. 91

Pierre de Bréville: “Harmonie du soir”
Marguerite Canal: “Les Roses de Saâdi” 

Mary Bevan released her debut solo disc, Voyages, in 2017 (with pianist Joseph Middleton on the Signum label), which explores the music of eminent French composers and the settings they wrote for the poems of Charles Baudelaire. For this recital, Mary revisits her favourite repertoire from Voyages, including songs by Duparc, Fauré, Debussy, Chabrier, and more, but this time, each song is paired with another by a female composer writing around the same time. In this way, the recital seeks to bring the female composers from out of the shadow of their male counterparts and restore them to their rightful places as composers of equal quality and interest.