Helen Charlston mezzo-soprano
Ilan Kurtser piano
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Brahms
Ständchen
Shostakovich
Son (from Spanish Songs)
Copland
Nature, the gentlest mother
Brahms
Feldeinsamkeit
Clara Schumann
Sechs Lieder (Op.13)
Nathan James Dearde
the way we go*
Joshua Borin
Nature is Returning*
Vaughan Williams
Four Last Songs
Tchaikovsky
Moi genij moi angel moi drug
Nyet tolka tot kto znal
Clara Schumann
Die gute Nacht die ich dir sage
Stephen Bick
On his blindness*
*From the Isolation Songbook
Helen Charlston triumphed in the most recent Kathleen Ferrier Awards, walking away with the Song Prize, while alumnus of the Leeds Lieder Young Artist scheme Ilan Kurtser won the coveted Accompanist’s Prize. The Ferrier Award joins others on Helen’s mantelpiece – she is a current BBC New Generation Artist, winner of the 2018 Handel Singing Competition and Rising Star of the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment. In addition to her growing reputation as a fine early music singer, she received widespread praise for her recent Isolation Songbook. A creative response to a time of chaos and change, it was originally conceived as an open call-for-scores to composers and lyricists to respond creatively to lockdown, the resulting 15 new songs are by turns witty and melancholic, brash and joyful. Helen intersperses these songs with songs about nature by Brahms, Clara Schumann, Vaughan Williams and Tchaikovsky.
Cf.
https://leedslieder.org.uk/whats-on/saturday-30-april-ferrier-award-winners-bbc-new-generation-artist-recital/?utm_medium=display&utm_source=bachtrack.com&utm_campaign=listinglink 
