Hugh Cutting made history in 2021 as the first countertenor to win the Kathleen Ferrier Award and join the roster of BBC New Generation Artists. A rising-star soloist, he was hailed by the Times as “an exceptional voice: lustrous and rounded, with power in reserve and immaculate intonation.”

Part 1: Italian
Monteverdi E pur io torno from L’Incoronazione di Poppea
Strozzi Che si può fare
Strozzi Begl’occhi
Cavalli Erme e solinghe cime from Calisto
Marini Passacaglio op 22, no 25

Part 2: German
J.C. Bach Lamento Ach, dass ich Wassers g’nug hätte
Erlebach Wer sich dem Himmel übergeben
J.C. Bach Es ist nun aus
Krieger Adagio from the Sonata a4 in F

Part 3: English
Purcell Come, ye sons of Art, away
Purcell ’Tis nature’s voice
Purcell Arise, my muse
Blow Chaconne
Purcell One charming night
Humfrey Sleep, downy sleep
Blow Lovely Selina
Purcell Chaconna from Ten Sonatas in Four Parts
Purcell From Rosy Bow’rs / Vouchsafe from Te Deum and Jubilate
Purcell Fairest Isle