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2024 Wigmore Hall/Bollinger International Song Competition - Preliminary Round Day 1
Date
Sat 07 Sep 2024, 11.00am
Tickets
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Duration

11.00am - 3.30pm

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Programme

  • Ivor Gurney
    1890-1937
      • I will go with my father a-ploughing
  • Hugo Wolf
    1860-1903
      • Mörike Lieder
        :
      • Der Tambour
  • Henry Purcell
    1659-1695
      • The Blessed Virgin's Expostulation Z196
        (realised by Benjamin Britten)
  • Gabriel Fauré
    1845-1924
      • La bonne chanson Op. 61
        :
      • La lune blanche luit dans les bois
  • Hugo Wolf
    1860-1903
      • Goethe Lieder
        :
      • Mignon 'Kennst du das Land?'
  • Roger Quilter
    1877-1953
      • 5 Shakespeare Songs Op. 23
        :
      • Take, O take those lips away
  • Francis Poulenc
    1899-1963
      • Airs chantés
        :
      • Air romantique
      • La grenouillère
      • Hyde Park
  • William Walton
    1902-1983
      • A Song for the Lord Mayor's Table
        :
      • The Contrast

Overview

The Competition recognises the song tradition as a whole and requires contestants to perform in at least three languages. At the same time, it honours the Lied’s place at the heart of the song repertoire and celebrates the Shakespearean stature of Schubert in the genre.

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