Â鶹Éç Cardiff Singer of the World 2023 (1/4)
Pianist and broadcaster Iain Burnside and soprano Rebecca Evans present highlights from the Song Prize competition at Â鶹Éç Cardiff Singer of the World 2023.
Pianist and broadcaster Iain Burnside and soprano Rebecca Evans, introduce highlights from the preliminary stages of the 2023 Â鶹Éç Cardiff Singer of the World Song Prize, which takes place this week in the Dora Stoutzker Recital Hall at Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama.
Just fourteen of the world's finest young singers have won through to this stage of the Song competition and are now invited to perform their programmes of lieder and art song in front of a distinguished jury, led by Wigmore Hall's Artistic and Executive Director John Gilhooly. The stakes are high, and only five of them will secure a spot in the Song Prize Final, at St David's Hall on Thursday.
Competitors taking part include: soprano, Johanna Wallroth (Sweden); tenor, Vasyl Solodkyy (Ukraine); mezzo, Beth Taylor (Scotland); soprano, Nombulelo Yende (South Africa) and soprano, Meigui Zhang (China)
Competition accompanists: LlÅ·r Williams; Simon Lepper
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Charles Ives
Memories
Performer: Magnus Svensson. Singer: Johanna Wallroth. -
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Viktor Ullmann
Claire Vénus (6 Sonnets de Louïse Labé, Op 34)
Performer: Magnus Svensson. Singer: Johanna Wallroth. -
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Franz Liszt
Pace non trovo (3 Sonetti di Petrarca, S 270, No 1)
Performer: Magnus Svensson. Singer: Johanna Wallroth. -
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Franz Liszt
I' vidi in terra angelici costumi (3 Sonetti di Petrarca, S 270, No 1)
Performer: LlÅ·r Williams. Singer: Vasyl Solodkyy. -
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Dumytrashko
Chorniyi brovy kariyi ochi
Performer: LlÅ·r Williams. Singer: Vasyl Solodkyy. -
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Franz Lehár
Dein ist mein ganzes Herz (Das Land des Lächelns)
Performer: LlÅ·r Williams. Singer: Vasyl Solodkyy. -
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Henry Purcell
Lord, what is man?
Performer: Hamish Brown. Music Arranger: Benjamin Britten. Singer: Beth Taylor. -
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Arthur Honegger
Trois chansons de la petite Sirène
Performer: Hamish Brown. Singer: Beth Taylor. -
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Reynaldo Hahn
Dans la nuit
Performer: Hamish Brown. Singer: Beth Taylor. -
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Herbert Howells
King David (A Garland for De La Mare, Op 12 )
Performer: Hamish Brown. Singer: Beth Taylor. -
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Edvard Grieg
Zur Rosenzeit, Op 48, No 5
Performer: Simon Lepper. Singer: Nombulelo Yende. -
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Edvard Grieg
En Svane, Op 25, No 2
Performer: Simon Lepper. Singer: Nombulelo Yende. -
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Richard Strauss
Heimliche Aufforderung, Op 27, No 3
Performer: Simon Lepper. Singer: Nombulelo Yende. -
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Richard Strauss
Cäcilie, Op 27, No 2
Performer: Simon Lepper. Singer: Nombulelo Yende. -
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Eva Dell'Acqua
Villanelle
Performer: Simon Lepper. Singer: Meigui Zhang. -
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Claude Debussy
Apparition (Quatre chansons de jeunesse)
Performer: Simon Lepper. Singer: Meigui Zhang. -
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Hugo Wolf
Die Kleine
Performer: Simon Lepper. Singer: Meigui Zhang. -
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Yi Zhou
The Phoenix Hairpin
Performer: Simon Lepper. Singer: Meigui Zhang.
Broadcast
- Tue 13 Jun 2023 13:00Â鶹Éç Radio 3