September 15th 2001 Professional Concert

Susan Legg soprano Mark Wilde tenor Helen Sanderson guitar

Susan Legg studied at the Royal College of Music and the National Opera Studio. After winning the National Mozart Singing Competition, she joined Glyndebourne Festival Chorus and sang for the Walton Trust in Ischia, Italy. Susan was awarded the Richard Tauber Schubert Society Prize and was a finalist in the Kathleen Ferrier Competition and the Belvedere International Singing Competition in Vienna. She has sung in the Bayreuth and Wexford Festivals, recorded with the BBC Singers, and performed Mozart's Le Nozze di Figaro (Cherubino) for the Britten-Pears School, Aldburgh. Susan has given recitals at the Wigmore Hall, St. John's, Smith Square and the Purcell Room, and has made an acclaimed CD for ASV Records of the works of Witold Lutoslawski.
Helen Sanderson graduated from the Royal College of Music as a major prizewinner. She has given recitals at venues including St. Martin-in -the-Fields, the Academy of Arts (Berlin), the British Embassy (Vienna) and the Barbican. Helen made her German debut at the Allensbach Chamber Music Festival and subsequently performed at the International Tippett Festival in Berlin in the presence of the composer.
Mark Wilde studied at the University of East Anglia and the Royal College of Music. He has sung at Glyndebourne and the English National Opera as well as at the Perth and Buxton Festivals and on BBC Radio3. Mark appears regularly in both the UK and abroad and sung in Helsinki and in London at the Barbican, Royal Festival Hall and St. John's, Smith Square. He has recorded for Naxos, Hyperion and Docker Records.

"...a refined tone...some incredibly georgeous sounds" (Classical Guitar magazine, 1997)
"...great panache and style" (Gitarre and Laute Magazine, 1997)

~ Programme ~
1 Four Shakespearian Songs
  Hark! Hark! the Lark  
  Willow Song Anon.
  Take, O take those lips away John Wilson
  O Mistress mine Thomas Morley
2 Lullaby d'Analta (from Dido & Aeneas) Monteverdi
3 Two Hungarian Folksongs
  Queen of Flowers Kodaly
  Silver Moonbeams Bartok
4 Music for Awhile Purcell
  Man is for the woman made
5 Ständchen Schubert
  Nacht und Träume
  Andenken Beethoven
  Adelaide
6 O Mistress Mine Racine-Fricker
7 Anon. in love Walton
  Fain, would I change that note
  O stay, sweet love
  Lady, when I behold the roses
  My love on her attire
  I gave her cakes and I gave her ale
  To couple is a custom
~ Interval ~
8 Three Spanish Songs Rodrigo
  The Miller's Wife
  Delia
  Courting
9 from Seven Popular Spanish Songs de Falla
  Asturiana
  Nana
  El pano moruno
10 Ching a ring chaw Copland
  Simple Gifts
11 Don't be cross Zeller
12 Two Venetian Songs
  Sopra L'Acqua Indormenzada Pagello
  L'Avertimento Buratti
13 Two Hebridean Folk Songs Gerald Garcia
  Rann lasgaich
  'Se mo Nighean a ni Ceol'
14 Hark! Hark! The Ark Duarte
  (settings of Spike Milligan poems)
15 El Cumbanchero Hernandez