Elizabeth Watts & Roger Vignoles

Tuesday 5 February 2008

Elizabeth Watts

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Soprano

Roger Vignoles

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Piano

Franz Schubert

Liebe schwärmt, An die Nachtigall, Sei mir gegrüsst, Des Mädchens Klage, An die Sonne, Nacht und Traüme

Claude Debussy

Mandoline, Romance: Silence ineffable de l'heure, Pantomime, Clair de Lune, Pierrot, Apparition, Fantoches

Schubert

Die Blumensprache, Nähe des Geliebten, Frühlingsglaube, Thekla, Der Sänger am Felsen, Pflicht und Liebe

Richard Strauss

Das Rosenbad, Liebeshymnus, Morgen, Ich woll ein Straüsslein binden, Muttertändelei

Elizabeth Watts, born in 1979, was a chorister at Norwich Cathedral. After graduating with a first in archaeology from Sheffield University she won a scholarship to the Royal College of Music in 2002. She is now on the Young Singers' Programme with English National Opera and has had great success at Aldeburgh, Bridgewater Hall, Cheltenham Festival and many other musical venues. In June 2007 she won the prize for Lieder at the BBC Cardiff Singer of the World.

Roger Vignoles is internationally recognised as one of the leading British piano accompanists of today. He has played at every major musical venue in the world and has accompanied the world's finest singers and instrumentalists for more than twenty years.