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HSC 2011 Final Programme
HSC 2011 Final Programme
Thursday
7 April 2011 7pm
St George’s, Hanover Square
London, W1
Finalists Adjudicators
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Mrs Adair, The Arts Club Charitable Trust, The Groner Trust
The Michael Oliver Trust, Mr Michael Normington
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Thursday 7 April 7pm
St George’s, Hanover Square
London, W1
PROGRAMME
GF Handel
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RACHEL KELLY mezzo-soprano
Dopo notte from Ariodante HWV33
Ariodante:
Dopo notte atra e funesta After a dark and stormy night
splende in Ciel più vago il sole the sun shines more brightly in the heavens
e di gioia empie la terra; and the earth blossoms with joy.
Mentre in orrida tempesta While in a terrifying tempest
il mio legno è quasi assorto, my barque was engulfed,
giunge in porto, e'l lido afferra it has now found its harbour and reached
the shore.
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KERI FUGE soprano
Oh grant it, Heav’n … So shall the lute and
harp awake from Judas Maccabeus HWV63
Israelite woman:
Oh grant it, Heav’n, that our long woes
may cease,
And Judah's daughters taste the calm
of peace,
Sons, brothers, husbands to bewail no more,
Tortur'd at home, or havock'd in the war.
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EMILIE ALFORD mezzo-soprano
Crude furie degli orridi abissi
from Serse HWV40
Serse:
Crude furie degli orridi abissi Ye cruel Furies of the Lake,
Aspergetemi d'atro veleno! Over me your Venome shake.
Crolli il mondo e'l sole s'eclissi Crushed be the World and let yon light,
a quest'ira che spira nel seno To assuage my Wrath, be drown'd in Night.
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CARLEEN EBBS soprano
Per rapir quel tesoro ... Un cenno
leggiadretto from Serse HWV40
Atalanta:
Per rapir quel tesoro, che t'è colma di To take that treasure, which fills you with joy
gioia e me d'affanni, se amor non basta, and me with despair, if love is not enough,
adoprerò gl'inganni. I'll use deceit.
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BIOGRAPHIES March 2010.
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and Kiev and his ‘Symphony of a Thousand’ Christopher Hogwood, L’Allegro with Sir
for TV in Dublin; Bach’s St Matthew Passion John Eliot Gardiner, St John Passion with
in the Gewandhaus, Leipzig; Mozart’s Sir Harry Christophers, Holst’s The Dream
Requiem in the Salzburg Mozartwoche and City with Richard Hickox, and a Mozart
at the BBC Proms, and Handel’s Hercules series for EMI. Patrizia Kwella retired from
and La Resurrezione with Marc Minkowski the concert platform in early 2006.
in Paris and Lyon, Bach’s Easter Oratorio Her final performances included Dido in
and Vivaldi solo cantatas with the Israel Dido and Aeneas, A Sea Symphony at the
Camerata , and, more recently, Bach’s Royal Festival Hall, the St John Passion in
Christmas Oratorio in the Cadogan Hall. Cadogan Hall and John Tavener’s Lament
Catherine has over sixty recordings to her of the Mother of God in Winchester
credit: these cover a wide range of music, Cathedral in the composer’s presence.
but she is particularly renowned for her
many Handel discs. Ian Partridge
Laurence Cummings
Musical Director of the
London Handel Festival
ANGHARAD GRUFFYDD-JONES
ANDREW KENNEDY 2002 ELIZABETH ATHERTON 2003 2004