Metropolitan United Church that is.  Not the other place.  Anyway, it was a very pleasant Thursday lunchtime recital in which Maeve was accompanied on piano by Helen Becqué.  It was essentially a “turn of the century” (as in around 1900) programme.

The first set was Debussy’s Ariettes Oubliees.  The six songs are very Debussy.  Maeve sang them idiomatically, in excellent French and with a fair amount of variation in emotional intensity from quite restrained to exuberant.  She does “exuberant” rather well.  Equally excellent and idiomatic playing from Helen who also provided a bit of a break between song sets with pieces drawn from the Preludes Op. 12 of Luise Adolpha Le Beau.

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