The highlight was the Strauss, voiced movingly in keen, pure tones and with admirable interpretative insight by Kirstin Sharpin, a recent RSAMD opera graduate who already has the makings of a fine Straussian. Her command of the music's long lines was assured
- Conrad Wilson, 'The Herald' Vier Letzte Lieder
With Kirstin Sharpin, the three songs were voiced with impressive purity and perception, and with the soft-grained start to L'Indifferent sounding particularly lovely. Both vocally and orchestrally this was a performance full of exquisite things.
- Conrad Wilson, 'The Herald' Sheherazade
"Die neuseeländische Sopranistin Kirstin Sharpin fand lyrisch-innige Töne voll schlichtem Liebreiz und brillante Koloraturen."
("The New Zealand Soprano Kirstin Sharpin found lyrically-intimate tones full of simple charm and brilliant Coloratura")
-'Potsdamer Neueste Nachtrichten' Messiah
- Conrad Wilson, 'The Herald' Vier Letzte Lieder
With Kirstin Sharpin, the three songs were voiced with impressive purity and perception, and with the soft-grained start to L'Indifferent sounding particularly lovely. Both vocally and orchestrally this was a performance full of exquisite things.
- Conrad Wilson, 'The Herald' Sheherazade
"Die neuseeländische Sopranistin Kirstin Sharpin fand lyrisch-innige Töne voll schlichtem Liebreiz und brillante Koloraturen."
("The New Zealand Soprano Kirstin Sharpin found lyrically-intimate tones full of simple charm and brilliant Coloratura")
-'Potsdamer Neueste Nachtrichten' Messiah
Photo: Katie Loff
Performed in full:
Currently preparing:
Wagner, arr. Mottl: Wesendonck Lieder
Other Orchestral Works performed:
Bartok: Three Village Scenes – soloist (RSAMD/BBC SSO/ Volkov)
Berlioz: Nuits d’été (St Petersburg State Academical Symphony/Le Heux)
Grieg: Peer Gynt – First Herd-girl (RSNO/Denève)
Mahler: Eighth Symphony - Soprano 1/Magna Peccatrix and Soprano 2/Una Poenitentium
Mendelssohn: A Midsummer Night’s Dream - First Fairy (RSNO/ Andreas Spering)
Ravel: Shéhérazade (RSAMD Symphony/ Stéphane Denève)
Schoenberg: Gurrelieder - Tove (cond. Martyn Brabbins)
Strauss: Vier Letzte Lieder (Meadows Chamber Orchestra/Peter Evans)
Vaughan-Williams: Serenade to Music - Eva Turner (RSAMD)
Song cycles with piano:
Wagner: Wesendonck Lieder
Britten: On this Island
Strauss: Drei Ophelia-lieder
Debussy: Proses lyriques
Dvořák: V lidovém tonú (In Folk tone)
Selected song repertoire in English, German, French, Italian, Russian & Czech, from Purcell to the 21st Century.
Oratorio
Handel: Messiah
Haydn: The Creation, Kleine Orgelmesse
Mozart: Requiem
Rossini: Petite Messe Solennelle
Schubert: Mass in G
Mendelssohn: Hear My Prayer
Verdi: Requiem
Saint-Saens: Oratorio de Noel
Poulenc: Gloria
Jenkins: The Armed Man
Tippett: Five Spirituals from A Child of Our Time
Currently preparing:
Wagner, arr. Mottl: Wesendonck Lieder
Other Orchestral Works performed:
Bartok: Three Village Scenes – soloist (RSAMD/BBC SSO/ Volkov)
Berlioz: Nuits d’été (St Petersburg State Academical Symphony/Le Heux)
Grieg: Peer Gynt – First Herd-girl (RSNO/Denève)
Mahler: Eighth Symphony - Soprano 1/Magna Peccatrix and Soprano 2/Una Poenitentium
Mendelssohn: A Midsummer Night’s Dream - First Fairy (RSNO/ Andreas Spering)
Ravel: Shéhérazade (RSAMD Symphony/ Stéphane Denève)
Schoenberg: Gurrelieder - Tove (cond. Martyn Brabbins)
Strauss: Vier Letzte Lieder (Meadows Chamber Orchestra/Peter Evans)
Vaughan-Williams: Serenade to Music - Eva Turner (RSAMD)
Song cycles with piano:
Wagner: Wesendonck Lieder
Britten: On this Island
Strauss: Drei Ophelia-lieder
Debussy: Proses lyriques
Dvořák: V lidovém tonú (In Folk tone)
Selected song repertoire in English, German, French, Italian, Russian & Czech, from Purcell to the 21st Century.
Oratorio
Handel: Messiah
Haydn: The Creation, Kleine Orgelmesse
Mozart: Requiem
Rossini: Petite Messe Solennelle
Schubert: Mass in G
Mendelssohn: Hear My Prayer
Verdi: Requiem
Saint-Saens: Oratorio de Noel
Poulenc: Gloria
Jenkins: The Armed Man
Tippett: Five Spirituals from A Child of Our Time