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2024 Wigmore Hall/Bollinger International Song Competition - Semi-finals
Programme & Song Text
Date
Mon 09 Sep 2024, 3.00pm
Tickets
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Duration

Session 1: 3.00pm - 6.00pm
Session 2: 7.30pm - 9.00pm

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Programme

  • Herbert Howells
    1892-1983
      • In Green Ways Op. 43
        :
      • Wanderer's night song
      • On the merry first of May
  • Maurice Ravel
    1875-1937
      • 2 épigrammes de Clément Marot
        :
      • D'Anne jouant de l'espinette
  • Gerald Finzi
    1901-1956
      • Till Earth Outwears Op. 19a
        :
      • Let me enjoy the earth
  • Francis Poulenc
    1899-1963
      • 3 poèmes de Louise de Vilmorin
        :
      • Aux officiers de la garde blanche
  • Franz Schubert
    1797-1828
      • Lied der Delphine D857 No. 1
      • Dass sie hier gewesen D775
  • Liza Lehmann
    1862-1918
      • There are fairies at the bottom of our garden
  • Gerald Finzi
    1901-1956
      • A Young Man's Exhortation Op. 14
        :
      • Ditty
  • Gabriel Fauré
    1845-1924
      • Poème d'un jour Op. 21
        :
      • Rencontre
      • Toujours
  • Johannes Brahms
    1833-1897
      • Die schöne Magelone Op. 33
        :
      • Treue Liebe dauert lange
  • Hugo Wolf
    1860-1903
      • Mörike Lieder
        :
      • Begegnung
  • Benjamin Britten
    1913-1976
      • Songs and Proverbs of William Blake Op. 74
        :
      • The Tyger
  • Hugo Wolf
    1860-1903
      • Mörike Lieder
        :
      • Auf einer Wanderung
  • Lili Boulanger
    1893-1918
      • Clairières dans le ciel
        :
      • Nous nous aimerons
  • Franz Schubert
    1797-1828
      • Verklärung D59
      • Der Musensohn D764
      • An die Leier D737
  • Ivor Gurney
    1890-1937
      • I will go with my father a-ploughing
  • Gustav Mahler
    1860-1911
      • Des Knaben Wunderhorn
        :
      • Zu Strassburg auf der Schanz

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.

Running Order

3.00pm - Annabel Kennedy (mezzo-soprano) and Ana Manastireanu
3.20pm - Hanne Marit Mordal Iversen (soprano) and Revaz Abramia
3.40pm - Joël Terrin (tenor) and Jong Sun Woo
4.00pm - Michael Ronan (bass-baritone) and Harry Rylance
4.20pm - Interval (20 minutes)
4.40pm - Clara Barbier Serrano (soprano) and Joanna Kacperek
5.00pm - Santiago Sánchez (tenor) and Ian Tindale
5.20pm - Anja Mittermüller (mezzo-soprano) and Richard Fu
5.40pm - David Kennedy (baritone) and Jong Sun Woo
6.00pm - Supper interval (1 hour 30 minutes)
7.30pm - Michael Lafferty (tenor) and Daniel Peter Silcock
7.50pm - Jonathan Eyers (baritone) and Ilan Kurtser
8.10pm - Mathilde Ortscheidt (mezzo-soprano) and Juliette Journaux

Kindly supported by William and Judith Bollinger

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