Julie Roset is playing the long game. Big wins at the Metropolitan Opera’s Laffont Competition in 2022 and Operalia in 2023 could easily have pressed fast-forward on the French soprano’s career, but the 28-year-old has bided her time, consolidating her operatic reputation with debuts in Aix, Paris, Madrid, and the Met, and building her recording portfolio with two ravishing discs as one third of early-music vocal-trio La Néréide. Only now is she releasing her solo debut.

And boy is M’a dit Amour worth the wait. Roset teams up with pianist Susan Manoff for an all-French program that takes chanson and mélodie from the Belle Epoque salon to the 21st-century recital hall, lingering mid-century with Debussy, Louis Beydts and more. Yes there are some classics here – both Debussy’s piano and vocal versions of La fille aux cheveux de lin, as well as his En sourdine and Hahn’s Naïs – but for the most part the recital prefers the less-trodden paths.