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ELEGY
Various composers

Mary Bevan

ELEGY

Price: € 19.95
Format: CD
Label: Signum Classics
UPC: 0635212093924
Catnr: SIGCD 939
Release date: 03 October 2025
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Label
Signum Classics
UPC
0635212093924
Catalogue number
SIGCD 939
Release date
03 October 2025
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About the album

Her fifth 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.

Artist(s)

Mary Bevan (soprano)

Mary Bevan appears with leading opera houses, orchestras and ensembles worldwide. For the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden she sang Morgana in a new Richard Jones Alcina, Lila in David Bruce The Firework-Maker’s Daughter, performed the title roles of Rossi Orpheus at the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse and of Turnage Coraline at the Barbican, and made her main stage debut as Barbarina Le nozze di Figaro. For English National Opera, roles include Susanna Le nozze di Figaro, Eurydice in Offenbach Orpheus in the Underworld and Zerlina Don Giovanni. She made her debut with Opera di Roma as Cleopatra Giulio Cesare, returning as Morgana, also debuting for the Zurich Opera House (La Folie Platée) and Bayerische Staatsoper (title role La Calisto). Opera highlights elsewhere have...
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Mary Bevan appears with leading opera houses, orchestras and ensembles worldwide. For the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden she sang Morgana in a new Richard Jones Alcina, Lila in David Bruce The Firework-Maker’s Daughter, performed the title roles of Rossi Orpheus at the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse and of Turnage Coraline at the Barbican, and made her main stage debut as Barbarina Le nozze di Figaro. For English National Opera, roles include Susanna Le nozze di Figaro, Eurydice in Offenbach Orpheus in the Underworld and Zerlina Don Giovanni. She made her debut with Opera di Roma as Cleopatra Giulio Cesare, returning as Morgana, also debuting for the Zurich Opera House (La Folie Platée) and Bayerische Staatsoper (title role La Calisto). Opera highlights elsewhere have included appearances with Opera de Monte Carlo, Teatro Real Madrid, Teatro La Fenice, Royal Danish Opera, and the Bolshoi Theatre.

Bevan’s concert performances include her Carnegie Hall debut as Dalinda Ariodante with the English Concert (Harry Bicket), Creation at the Barbican with the Academy of Ancient Music, Sally Beamish The Judas Passion with the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, orchestrated Schubert songs with the CBSO (Edward Gardner) and appearances with the Handel and Haydn Society Boston, Philharmonia Baroque, BBC Symphony Orchestra, BBC Concert Orchestra, Barokksolistine, LPO and at the BBC Proms. She has toured extensively across Europe, Australia, Asia and the US with the Kammerorchester Basel, Australian Chamber Orchestra and English Concert, and she appears regularly in recital at Wigmore Hall.

Bevan’s wide-ranging discography includes numerous releases on Signum Records: a recording of orchestral French song entitled Visions Illuminées, art song albums Voyages and Divine Muse with pianist Joseph Middleton, and Handel’s Queens. Other albums include Handel's The Triumph of Time and Truth and Ode for St Cecilia’s Day, Vaughan Williams Symphony No.3 and Schubert Rosamunde with the BBC Philharmonic, Arthur Sullivan songs (Chandos), Vaughan Williams folk songs (Albion), Brahms Liebesliederwaltzer (Resonus), and more.

Bevan is a winner of the Royal Philharmonic Society’s Young Artist award and UK Critics’ Circle Award for Exceptional Young Talent in music. She was awarded an MBE in the Queen’s birthday honours list in 2019 and was made a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Music in 2025.


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Joseph Middleton (piano)

Joseph Middleton is widely regarded as one of the most exceptional and creative pianists of his generation, specialising in song accompaniment and chamber music at the highest international level. Hailed by Gramophone as 'the absolute king of programming', and by the New York Times as “the perfect accompanist”, he collaborates with many of the world's foremost singers, performing at venues and festivals across Europe, North America, and Asia.  A passionate advocate for the power of song, Joseph is the Artistic Director of Leeds Song, praised by The Guardian for its 'world-class' programming and by The Times as a 'Northern powerhouse of song”. He also curates series for BBC Radio 3, Wigmore Hall, and the University of Cambridge, where he founded and...
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Joseph Middleton is widely regarded as one of the most exceptional and creative pianists of his generation, specialising in song accompaniment and chamber music at the highest international level. Hailed by Gramophone as "the absolute king of programming", and by the New York Times as “the perfect accompanist”, he collaborates with many of the world's foremost singers, performing at venues and festivals across Europe, North America, and Asia. A passionate advocate for the power of song, Joseph is the Artistic Director of Leeds Song, praised by The Guardian for its "world-class" programming and by The Times as a "Northern powerhouse of song”. He also curates series for BBC Radio 3, Wigmore Hall, and the University of Cambridge, where he founded and directs their Lieder Scheme. Joseph is Musician in Residence at Pembroke College. He is a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Music, where he is a Professor of Ensemble Piano, and was made a Bye-Fellow of Pembroke College, Cambridge by Lord Chris Smith. Joseph is the first —and to date, only—accompanist to receive the Royal Philharmonic Society’s Young Artist Award, the UK's most prestigious recognition for a classical musician. He has enjoyed fruitful partnerships alongside Sir Thomas Allen, Louise Alder, Mary Bevan, Ian Bostridge, Allan Clayton, Dame Sarah Connolly, Marianne Crebassa, Veronique Gens, Iestyn Davies, Fatma Said, Huw Montague Rendall, Christiane Karg, Sir Simon Keenlyside, Elsa Dreisig, Angelika Kirchschlager, Katharina Konradi, Dame Felicity Lott, Christopher Maltman, John Mark Ainsley, Ann Murray DBE, James Newby, Mark Padmore, Konstantin Krimmel, Mauro Peter, Miah Persson, Sophie Rennert, Dorothea Röschmann, Carolyn Sampson, Nicky Spence and Roderick Williams. His award-winning discography on Warner, Harmonia Mundi, BIS, Chandos and Signum, amongst others, includes multiple honours: the Diapason d’Or, Edison Award, and Prix Caecilia, alongside nominations for Gramophone, Opus Klassik, BBC Music Magazine, and International Classical Music Awards. Committed to expanding the song repertoire, he has commissioned and premiered works by composers including Thomas Adès, Helen Grime, Mark - Anthony Turnage, Hannah Kendall, Errollyn Wallen, Mark Simpson and Nico Muhly.


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01.
2 Mélodies hébraïques, M. A22: No. 1, Kaddisch
05:05
(Maurice Ravel) Mary Bevan, Joseph Middleton
02.
7 Mélodies, Op. 2
02:49
(Ernest Chausson) Mary Bevan, Joseph Middleton
03.
Nachtstück, D. 672
05:26
(Franz Schubert) Mary Bevan, Joseph Middleton
04.
Auflösung, D. 807
02:26
(Franz Schubert) Mary Bevan, Joseph Middleton
05.
Die Junge Nonne, D. 828
04:37
(Franz Schubert) Mary Bevan, Joseph Middleton
06.
An Evening Hymn, Z. 193
04:28
(Henry Purcell) Mary Bevan, Joseph Middleton
07.
Come to me in my dreams, H. 71
03:38
(Frank Bridge) Mary Bevan, Joseph Middleton
08.
3 Mélodies, Op. 7: No. 1. Après un rêve
02:54
(Gabriel Fauré) Mary Bevan, Joseph Middleton
09.
Die gute Nacht, die ich dir sage
02:36
(Clara Schumann) Mary Bevan, Joseph Middleton
10.
Vier ernste Gesänge, Op. 121, No. 3: O Tod, wie bitter bist du
03:38
(Johannes Brahms) Mary Bevan, Joseph Middleton
11.
Peace on Earth
03:27
(Errolyn Wallen) Mary Bevan, Joseph Middleton
12.
6 Gedichte von N. Lenau und Requiem, Op. 90. No. 7: Requiem
04:10
(Robert Schumann) Mary Bevan, Joseph Middleton
13.
Amour comme un oiseau captif: VIII. Mort, quand tu me viendras prendre
01:03
(Jeanne Landry) Mary Bevan, Joseph Middleton
14.
2 Songs, Op. 4: No. 1, La chanson du pêcheur
03:16
(Pauline Viardot) Mary Bevan, Joseph Middleton
15.
Four Last Songs: III. Tired
02:23
(Ralph Vaughan Williams) Mary Bevan, Joseph Middleton
16.
6 Lieder, Op. 48: II. Dereinst, Gedanke mein. Molto Andante
02:48
(Edvard Grieg) Joseph Middleton, Mary Bevan
17.
Hermit Songs, Op. 29: No. 10, The Desire for Hermitage
03:13
(Samuel Barber) Joseph Middleton, Mary Bevan
18.
Rückert-Lieder: No. 3, Ich bin der Welt abhanden gekommen
06:12
(Gustav Mahler) Joseph Middleton, Mary Bevan
19.
4 Lieder, Op. 27, TrV 170: No. 4, Morgen!
03:51
(Richard Strauss) Joseph Middleton, Mary Bevan
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