Claire Crozia Betty Bannerman Award for French Song - Recital

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Clonter is delighted to be presenting a recital to be given by Lixin Liu, last year’s winner of the Claire Croiza and Betty Bannerman Award for French Song -established for students at the Royal Northern College of Music. The recital will take place in the Music Room at Clonterbrook. Priority Booking for Friends of Clonter.

Claire Croiza made her opera début in Nancy in 1905 in Messaline by Isidore de Lara. In 1906 she made her first appearance at La Monnaie in Brussels, as Dalila in Samson et Dalila, beginning a long association with that theatre which included the roles of Dido (Berlioz), Carmen, Léonor (La favorite), Charlotte (Werther) and the title role in Fauré’s opera Pénélope. Although she first established herself as an operatic singer, she increasingly developed her career as a recitalist specialising in mélodies, and she undertook recital tours in numerous countries,including frequent visits to London where she was very well received. She had a great feeling for the French language and was always able to enunciate the words in clear and natural way without sacrificing the flow of the music. Several contemporary composers chose to accompany her personally in

performances of their songs, including Ravel (in Shéhérazade), Fauré (in the premiere of Le jardin clos), Poulenc, Roussel, and Swiss-French composer Arthur Honegger. From 1922, she also worked as a teacher, giving classes in

interpretation at the École Normale, and from 1934 at the Paris Conservatoire. Her pupils included Janine Micheau, Suzanne Juyol, and the baritones Jacques Jansen, Camille Maurane and Gérard Souzay. Her

reputation was concisely summed up by a reviewer in The Times reporting on a Wigmore Hall concert in 1932: “Mme. Croiza is a supreme interpreter of modern French songs. She brings to them an exquisite sensibility thatreveals every shade of meaning in the poems.”

Betty Bannerman was a distinguished mezzo soprano who enjoyed a career spanning some seven decades, latterly as a teacher. She

specialised in French song and was a pupil and friend of the great French mezzo Claire Croiza. Bannerman’s own voice ranged from low G to the high A flat. She had a rich, warm tone and exemplary diction in whatever language she was singing. A regular soloist at the Three Choirs Festivals before and after the Second World War, she sang in the Elgar oratorios and in choral works by Kodáy, Lambert, Mendelssohn and Bliss. She gave more than 200 solo recitals for the BBC; she was a soloist in Bach Passions conducted by Vaughan Williams at the Leith Hill Festivals and worked often with such

conductors asAnsermet, Beecham, Goossens and Boult. Besides French song, she excelled in German Lieder, Old Italian songs and the English repertoire from Purcell to Britten. Bannerman spent six months in Berlin with Lilli Lehmann and made a special study of lieder with von Zur Mühlen. Her first important London recital was at the Aeolian Hall in 1927. The next year she attended a Croiza recital, which made such an impression that she immediately asked to become her pupil, and for the next 10 years studied with her for a month every year.

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