Winner of the BBC Cardiff Singer of the World Competition

Mussorgsky’s Songs and Dances of Death crown a recital of potent vocal works with Ukrainian baritone Andrei Kymach, here in his London debut. Winner of the BBC Cardiff Singer of the World 2019 Kymach performs with distinguished Russian pianist Semion Skigin.

A programme of heightened emotion features arias from Verdi’s early, tumultuous opera I masnadieri, alongside works from Donizetti, Tchaikovsky, Bizet, and Rachmaninov, in a Park Lane Group concert.

Kymach came to singing late, after studying philosophy at university. He debuted at the Bolshoi Theatre of Russia in 2017, in the role of Don Carlos in Dargomyzhsky’s The Stone Guest.

Programme

Donizetti
Qui un pugnale! Chi’l confisse
Ah, nel cuor mi suona un grido from Gemma di Vergy

Verdi
Vecchio! spiccai da te
La sua lampada vitale; Tremate, o miseri from I Masnadieri
Romanza in F for piano
Waltz in F for piano

Tchaikovsky
Once in Versailles (Tomsky’s ballad) from The Queen of Spades
April (Snowdrop) from The Seasons

Bizet
Les Toréadors from Carmen
Les rêves from Chants du Rhin

Rachmaninov
Lilacs, Op.21 No.5 transc. for piano
Ves tabor spit (The whole camp sleeps) (Aleko’s Cavatina) from Aleko

– interval –

Mussorgsky: Songs and dances of death

Performers

Andrei Kymach baritone
Semion Skigin piano