| September 15th 2001 |
Professional Concert |
| Susan Legg | soprano |
Mark Wilde | tenor |
Helen Sanderson | guitar |
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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 |