Introducing Hugh Cutting, a BBC New Generation Artist, winner of the Rising Star Award at the 2025 International Opera Awards, and a WFMT “Artist to Watch” in 2026. The British countertenor joins WFMT to share selections from Refound, his debut solo album with pianist Audrey Hyland. Hugh Cutting makes his Santa Fe Opera debut this summer in Handel’s Rodelinda.
All selections feature Hugh Cutting.
Ralph Vaughan Williams: Linden Lea
Audrey Hyland, piano
Johann Sebastian Bach: “Christi Glieder, ach bedenket” from Bereitet die Wege, bereitet die Bahn, BWV 132
Baroque ensemble/Davina Clark, violin
Heinrich Schütz: Auf dem Gebirge, SWV 396
Iestyn Davies, countertenor
Fretwork
Antonio Vivaldi: “Ah ch’infelice sempre” from Cessate omai, cessate, R. 684
Vivaldi: ‘In braccio de’ contenti” from Gloria e Imeneo, R. 687
Carlo Vistoli, countertenor
Les Arts Florissants/William Christie
Reynaldo Hahn: Études latines
III. Néère
Mel Bonis: Un soir, Op. posth. 77
Maurice Ravel: Cinq mélodies populaires grecques
IV. Chanson des cueilleuses de lentisques
Piers Connor Kennedy: Rough Rhymes
I. Wait
II. Two Worlds
Tom Lehrer: Poisoning Pigeons in the Park
Franz Schubert: “World, Farewell” after Abschied von der Erde, D. 829 (translation by Jeremy Sams)
Audrey Hyland, piano
