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大象传媒 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 大象传媒 Cardiff Singer of the World 2023.

Pianist and broadcaster Iain Burnside and soprano Rebecca Evans, introduce highlights from the preliminary stages of the 2023 大象传媒 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: Ll欧r Williams; Simon Lepper

1 hour, 27 minutes

Last on

Tue 13 Jun 2023 13:00

Music Played

  • Charles Ives

    Memories

    Performer: Magnus Svensson. Singer: Johanna Wallroth.
  • Viktor Ullmann

    Claire V茅nus (6 Sonnets de Lou茂se Lab茅, Op 34)

    Performer: Magnus Svensson. Singer: Johanna Wallroth.
  • Franz Liszt

    Pace non trovo (3 Sonetti di Petrarca, S 270, No 1)

    Performer: Magnus Svensson. Singer: Johanna Wallroth.
  • Franz Liszt

    I' vidi in terra angelici costumi (3 Sonetti di Petrarca, S 270, No 1)

    Performer: Ll欧r Williams. Singer: Vasyl Solodkyy.
  • Dumytrashko

    Chorniyi brovy kariyi ochi

    Performer: Ll欧r Williams. Singer: Vasyl Solodkyy.
  • Franz Leh谩r

    Dein ist mein ganzes Herz (Das Land des L盲chelns)

    Performer: Ll欧r Williams. Singer: Vasyl Solodkyy.
  • Henry Purcell

    Lord, what is man?

    Performer: Hamish Brown. Music Arranger: Benjamin Britten. Singer: Beth Taylor.
  • Arthur Honegger

    Trois chansons de la petite Sir猫ne

    Performer: Hamish Brown. Singer: Beth Taylor.
  • Reynaldo Hahn

    Dans la nuit

    Performer: Hamish Brown. Singer: Beth Taylor.
  • Herbert Howells

    King David (A Garland for De La Mare, Op 12 )

    Performer: Hamish Brown. Singer: Beth Taylor.
  • Edvard Grieg

    Zur Rosenzeit, Op 48, No 5

    Performer: Simon Lepper. Singer: Nombulelo Yende.
  • Edvard Grieg

    En Svane, Op 25, No 2

    Performer: Simon Lepper. Singer: Nombulelo Yende.
  • Richard Strauss

    Heimliche Aufforderung, Op 27, No 3

    Performer: Simon Lepper. Singer: Nombulelo Yende.
  • Richard Strauss

    C盲cilie, Op 27, No 2

    Performer: Simon Lepper. Singer: Nombulelo Yende.
  • Eva Dell'Acqua

    Villanelle

    Performer: Simon Lepper. Singer: Meigui Zhang.
  • Claude Debussy

    Apparition (Quatre chansons de jeunesse)

    Performer: Simon Lepper. Singer: Meigui Zhang.
  • Hugo Wolf

    Die Kleine

    Performer: Simon Lepper. Singer: Meigui Zhang.
  • Yi Zhou

    The Phoenix Hairpin

    Performer: Simon Lepper. Singer: Meigui Zhang.

Broadcast

  • Tue 13 Jun 2023 13:00