Following her highly acclaimed debut album, a programme of Offenbach coloratura arias, for Alpha Classics – Gramophone's current Label of the Year – Jodie Devos turns to the English language for 'And Love Said …'.

James Jolly caught up with Jodie Devos by video call at her home in Paris to hear the story behind the album – an album which was selected as an Editor's Choice in Gramophone's March issue and described by our critic Hugo Shirley as 'a recital that bristles with life and love, at once engaging, beguiling and moving. Highly recommended.'

Conversation ranged from her studies at London's Royal Academy of Music to her passion – handed on by her parents – for the music of Queen which resulted in the inclusion of Freddie Mercury's 'You take my breath away' on the new album. 

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WIGMORE HALL CONCERTS

Monday, March 8, 1.00pm
Isata Kanneh-Mason pf
C Schumann Soirées musicales, Op 6 – Notturno. Scherzo No 2 in C minor, Op 14
Natalie Klouda Nightscapes 2020
Gubaidulina Chaconne

C Schumann Piano Sonata in G minor
 
Monday, March 8, 7.30pm
Apartment House / Anton Lukoszevieze 
Satie Prière (fragment)
Cage Haiku
Mindaugas Urbaitis Ramybė (Stillness)
Christian Wolff Eight Days a Week Variation
John Lely Meander section
Walter Zimmermann When I am 84
Jim O'Rourke Best that you do this for me
Gerhard Rühm Kleine Geschichte der Zivilisation
 
Tuesday, March 9, 7.30pm
Danny Driver pf
Fauré Thème et Variations in C sharp minor, Op 73

Debussy Images, Series 2 – Cloches à travers les feuilles

Fauré Nocturne No 6 in D flat, Op 63

Ligeti Etudes Book II – No 7, Galamb borong; Etudes Book I – No 5, Arc-en-ciel

Mussorgsky Pictures at an Exhibition
 
Wednesday, March 10, 7.30pm
Claire Booth sop
Christopher Glynn pf
Poulenc La voix humaine (English translation by Richard Stokes)
 
Thursday, March 11, 7.30pm
Heath Quartet
Bartók String Quartet No 2, BB75, Op 17

Beethoven String Quartet No 10 in E flat, Op 74, 'Harp'
 
Friday, March 12, 7.30pm
'Steven Osborne 50th Birthday Concert'
Ailish Tynan sop
Jean Johnson cl
Alina Ibragimova vn
Bjørg Lewis vc
Paul Lewis pf
Steven Osborne pf
Schubert Der Hirt auf dem Felsen, D965. Fantasie in F minor, D940

Ravel Miroirs – La vallée des cloches. Piano Trio in A minor