Our new cohort of Rising Stars of the Enlightenment for 2019-21 has just been announced. We asked them about their favourite music and turned the answers into a Spotify playlist.
Zoe Brookshaw (soprano)
1. The Moana soundtrack
2. “Any and all of the Bach Motets”.
3. J.S. Bach
Guy Cutting (tenor)
1. Lately Stevie Wonder
2. “Bach’s St Matthew Passion has to be up there, although it’s vocally exhausting so perhaps not. Brahms’ songs are so wonderfully lyrical and therefore a pleasure to sing.”
3. Tchaikovsky or Mahler.
Bethany Horak-Hallett (mezzo soprano)
1. Restless in Thoughts John Eccles
2. ‘Se bramate d’amar, chi vi sdenga’ from Handel’s Serse
3. “Am I allowed to say Prince? If not, then Dvořák”.
Hugo Hymas (tenor)
1. Nevermind Dennis Lloyd
2. “Bach’s St Matthew Passion, because I know it so well and yet there’s still so much to be explored.”
3. “I’d have to say the best of The Beatles. But from classical music, Bach – particularly the Violin Sonatas and Partitas performed by Alina Ibragimova.”
Sinead O’Kelly (mezzo soprano)
1. Waterfalls TLC
2. “Anything with coloratura. At the minute ‘Dopo un’orrida procella’ from Vivaldi’s Gloria, which I’m currently learning for a job later this year!
3. “I thought about this one for ages and debated other composers, but the name I kept circling back to was Mozart.”
Dominic Sedgwick (baritone)
1. Pelléas et Mélisande Debussy
2. Billy Budd Britten
3. Strauss
