International Vocal Competition 2016

Mezzo-soprano Adèle Charvet (France, 1993) and pianist Florian Caroubi (France, 1989) perform ‘Los dos miedos’ from Joaquín Turina’s Poema en forma de canciones; ‘C’est ainsi que tu es’ from Francis Poulenc’s Métamorphoses, and ‘Je nommerai ton font’ from Miroirs brûlants; Monique Krüs’s ‘Lunam, ne quidem Lunam’; ‘Schenk mir deinen goldenen Kamm’ from Arnold Schönberg’s Vier Lieder (Op. 2); ‘Meine Rose’ from Robert Schumann’s Lenau-Lieder; and ‘Mignon, Kennst du das Land’ from Hugo Wolf’s Goethe-Lieder, during the semi-finals of the International Vocal Competition 2016 - Lied Duo. This performance was recorded at the Great Church in ‘s-Hertogenbosch, the Netherlands.

Baritone Henry Neill (Great Britain, 1988) and pianist Frederick Brown (Great Britain, 1989) perform Sergei Rachmaninoff’s ‘In the silence of the secret night’; ‘In the lovely village of Nevesinje’ and ‘The Romance of Count Arnaldos’ from Judith Weir’s Songs from the Exotic; ‘Begegnung’, ‘Der Tambour’, and ‘Gebet’ from Hugo Wolf’s Mörike-Lieder; and ‘Lob des hohen Versandes’ from Gustav Mahler’s Des Knaben Wunderhorn, during the semi-finals of the International Vocal Competition 2016 - Lied Duo. This performance was recorded at the Great Church in ‘s-Hertogenbosch, the Netherlands.

Baritone Julien Van Mellaerts (New Zealand/Great Britain, 1988) and pianist Somi Kim (New Zealand, 1989) perform ‘Le Paon’ from Maurice Ravel’s Histoires naturelles; Roger Quilter’s ‘Go, Lovely Rose’; ‘Der Kontrabandiste’ from Robert Schumann’s Spanisches Liederspiel (Op. 74); and ‘Lob des hohen Versandes’ from Gustav Mahler’s Des Knaben Wunderhorn, during the semi-finals of the International Vocal Competition 2016 - Lied Duo. This performance was recorded at the Great Church in ‘s-Hertogenbosch, the Netherlands.

Soprano Jihye Kim (South Korea, 1987) and pianist Hyanghyun Lee (South Korea, 1985) perform Sungtae Kim’s ‘San-Yu-Hwa’ (Flower on the Mountain); Monique Krüs’s ‘Lunam, ne quidem Lunam’; ‘C’est l’extase langoureuse’ and ‘Green’ from Claude Debussy’s Ariettes oubliées; ‘Das verlassene Mägdlein’ from Hugo Wolf’s Mörike-Lieder, and ‘Mignon, Kennst du das Land’ from Wolf’s Goethe-Lieder, during the semi-finals of the International Vocal Competition 2016 - Lied Duo. This performance was recorded at the Great Church in ‘s-Hertogenbosch, the Netherlands.

Baritone Michael Wilmering (the Netherlands, 1988) and pianist Javier Rameix (Venezuela, 1991) perform ‘Aus alten Märchen winkt es’ and ‘Die alten, bösen Lieder’ from Robert Schumann’s Dichterliebe (Op. 48); Gustav Mahler’s ‘Wenn mein Schatz Hochzeit macht’ from Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen; ‘Oh no, I beg you, forsake me not!’ from Sergei Rachmaninoff’s Six Romances (Op. 4); and Monique Krüs’s ‘Lunam, ne quidem Lunam’, during the semi-finals of the International Vocal Competition 2016 - Lied Duo. This performance was recorded at the Great Church in ‘s-Hertogenbosch, the Netherlands.

Baritone Artur Rożek (Poland, 1984) and pianist Tomasz Pawłowski (Poland, 1983) perform Monique Krüs’s ‘Lunam, ne quidem Lunam’; Henri Duparc’s ‘La vague et la cloche’; ‘Chanson à boire’ from Francis Poulenc’s Huit chansons gaillardes; ‘O, If Only You Could’ from Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky’s Six Romances (Op. 38); and ‘Er ist’s!, and Abschied’ from Hugo Wolf’s Mörike-Lieder, during the semi-finals of the International Vocal Competition 2016 - Lied Duo. This performance was recorded at the Great Church in ‘s-Hertogenbosch, the Netherlands.

Soprano Jana Marie Gropp (Germany, 1991) and pianist Pauline Gropp (Germany, 1995) perform ‘La maumariée I’ from Willem Pijper’s La maumariée; ‘Schlechtes Wetter’ from Richard Strauss’s Fünf kleine Lieder (Op. 69); and ‘Vesenniye vodiy’ (Spring Waters) from Sergei Rachmaninoff’s Twelve Romances (Op. 14), during the semi-finals of the International Vocal Competition 2016 - Lied Duo. This performance was recorded at the Great Church in ‘s-Hertogenbosch, the Netherlands.

Baritone Oddur Jónsson (Iceland, 1983) and pianist Judith Valerie Engel (Austria, 1993) perform ‘Selbstgeständnis’ from Hugo Wolf’s Mörike-Lieder; Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky’s ‘No, only he who has known’; Hans Erich Pfitzner’s ‘Nachtwanderer’; and Viktor Ullmann’s ‘Säerspruch’, during the semi-finals of the International Vocal Competition 2016 - Lied Duo. This performance was recorded at the Great Church in ‘s-Hertogenbosch, the Netherlands.

Soprano Marie Perbost (France, 1989) and pianist Joséphine Ambroselli Brault (France, 1988) perform ‘En sourdine’ from Gabriel Fauré’s Cinque Mélodies (Op. 58); ‘Ach, wende diesen Blick’ from Johannes Brahms’s Acht Lieder (Op. 57); Henri Duparc’s ‘Soupir’; ‘The Middle of Life’ (Hälfte des Lebens) from Benjamin Britten’s Sechs Hölderlin-Fragmente; Monique Krüs’s ‘Lunam, ne quidem Lunam’; and ‘Amor’ from William Elden Bolcom’s Cabaret Songs, during the semi-finals of the International Vocal Competition 2016 - Lied Duo. This performance was recorded at the Great Church in ‘s-Hertogenbosch, the Netherlands.