Kathleen Ferrier Award winners
Kathleen Ferrier Award winners
Gemma Summerfield (soprano)
Gareth Brynmor John (baritone)
Christopher Glynn (piano)
Mendelssohn – Neue Liebe
Mendelssohn – Die Liebende schreibt
Mendelssohn – Hexenlied
Brahms – Four Serious Songs
Bachelet – Chère Nuit
Poulenc – Deux poèmes de Louis aragon
Sibelius – Vilse
Sibelius – Flickan kom ifrån sin älsklings mote
Sibelius – Se’n har jag ej frågat mera
Tchaikovsky – At the Ball
Tchaikovsky – Don Juan’s Serenade
Rachmaninov – In the secret silence of the night
Mendelssohn – Six Duets (op. 63)
The annual competition commemorating Kathleen Ferrier is the country’s most prestigious award for singers. In a new partnership with the festival, two recent winners visit Ryedale to perform a varied programme that encompasses the graceful lyricism of Mendelssohn, deeply-felt songs to Biblical texts that Brahms composed in the last year of his life, and colourful and evocative songs from France, Russia and Scandinavia.