CBC Link: audio and video of Gala concert
Visit the 30th Anniversary Gala Concert on the CBC audio and video link. More information about the songs and performers is listed below: 2:30 pm, Sunday, February 19, 2012, Koerner Hall. Colin Ainsworth/ Benjamin Butterfield/ Michael Colvin/ Tyler Duncan/ Gerald Finley/ Gillian Keith/ Shannon Mercer/ Nathalie Paulin/ Susan Platts/ Brett Polegato/ Catherine Robbin/ Lauren Segal/ [...]
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On Sunday, February 19, 2012, an incomparable gathering of Canada’s finest artists took place in Koerner Hall, Toronto – 16 singers, a stage director and 2 pianists. They celebrated 30 amazing years of performing the rich repertoire of classical song across this city, throughout Canada and around the world.
Led by the illustrious Gerald Finley, one of the world’s leading baritones, the line-up included included Colin Ainsworth, Benjamin Butterfield, Michael Colvin, Tyler Duncan, Gillian Keith, Shannon Mercer, Nathalie Paulin, Susan Platts, Brett Polegato, Lauren Segal, Krisztina Szabó, Giles Tomkins, Monica Whicher and Lawrence Wiliford. Hosts and presenters for the afternoon were Catherine Robbin and Christopher Newton.
Artistic Directors, Stephen Ralls and Bruce Ubukata, presided at two pianos, accompanying the singers in a rich variety of repertoire, climaxing in the ecstatic Serenade To Music by the English composer, Ralph Vaughan Williams; words from Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice, beginning: “How sweet the moonlight sleeps upon this bank!” are gloriously set for 16 singers, with the inspired addition of solo violin, played by Erika Raum.
Visit the 30th Anniversary Gala Concert on the CBC audio and video link.
More information about the songs and performers is listed below:
Programme:
A Song of Enchantment (Tit for Tat) (Brett Polegato/Bruce Ubukata) Benjamin Britten
A Man and his Flute (Monica Whicher/Stephen Ralls) John Beckwith
Yarmouth Fair (Giles Tomkins/Stephen Ralls) Norfolk folksong, arr. Peter Warlock
Der Hochzeitsbraten (Gillian Keith/Lawrence Wiliford/Tyler Duncan/Bruce Ubukata) Franz Schubert
Palm Court Waltz (Stephen Ralls/Bruce Ubukata) Lennox Berkeley
Sonnet XVI (Colin Ainsworth/Stephen Ralls) Britten
The Salley Gardens (Michael Colvin/Bruce Ubukata) arr. Britten
At the round earth’s imagin’d corners (Lawrence Wiliford/Stephen Ralls) Britten
The Choirmaster’s Burial (Benjamin Butterfield/Bruce Ubukata) Britten
Blithe Bells (Stephen Ralls/Bruce Ubukata) Bach, arr. Percy Grainger
Two Songs of Travel (Gerald Finley/Stephen Ralls) Ralph Vaughan Williams
Whither must I wander?
Bright is the ring of words
Serenade to Music (Tutti/Erika Raum/Stephen Ralls/Bruce Ubukata) Vaughan Williams
Valse romantique III (Stephen Ralls/Bruce Ubukata) Emmanuel Chabrier
Sred’ shumnogo bala (Lauren Segal/Bruce Ubukata) Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
La regata veneziana (Shannon Mercer/Krisztina Szabó/Stephen Ralls) Gioachino Rossini
Sonnet (Colin Ainsworth/Stephen Ralls) Derek Holman
Dans le forêt de septembre (Brett Polegato/Bruce Ubukata) Gabriel Fauré
Blaue Augen hat das Mädchen (Michael Colvin/Tyler Duncan/Stephen Ralls/Bruce Ubukata) Robert Schumann
Ich bin der Welt abhanden gekommen (Susan Platts/Bruce Ubukata) Gustav Mahler
Der Schiffer (Gerald Finley/Stephen Ralls) Schubert
Nymphes et sylvains (Nathalie Paulin/Stephen Ralls) Herman Bemberg
Qui vive! (Grand galop de concert) (Stephen Ralls/Bruce Ubukata) Wilhelm Ganz
Tutto nel mondo è burla (Falstaff) (Tutti/Stephen Ralls/Bruce Ubukata) Giuseppe Verdi
ENCORE: All around the circle (final sections) (Tutti/2 pianos) John Greer
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