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a bare stage this evening save for the piano. Tonight, here in Cardiff,

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five singers face the daunting task of painting pictures through song.

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Joining me, someone who knows exactly the challenge they face, the

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ever exciting soprano, Daniele. challenge is to use the magic of

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classical song to paint passionate, musical vivid pictures. You are

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never more exposed than you are in a song recital. A great night lies

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ahead in the final of the 2013, BBC Cardiff Singer of the World song

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Alongside the main competition, singers have a chance to excel in

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the world of classical song. It's a different animal. You can be

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a lot more subtle with it. You could sort of add a lot more colours

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because you are not singing over a full orchestration. An opera singer

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should study a song repertory because the attention to musical

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nuance and colouring that you need to work on in miniature is what also

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helps make special a performance in opera. Since the first prize song

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confirm tickets, it's been a happy hunting grown for home-grown

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winners. Half the winners have come from the British Isles. We have

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famously Bryn but also Neil Davies, Chris, Andrew Kennedy, Elizabeth

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watts, and we can count as an honorary Brit Alish Tynan. We get to

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see them in a fearsome test of their abilities.

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In 90 my opinions' time, we'll know the name of this year's winner.

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Tonight's singers. Cell cell cell. Yuri Gorodetski. Jamie Barton. Ben

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Johnson. Olena Tokar. -- Maria Celeng.

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CHEERING AND APPLAUSE Nearly 1500 people in St David's

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Hall tonight, a vast audience for the intimate art of song-making,

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Schubert, Britain, Bartoch and Strauss among the composers we'll

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hear tonight. Joining me for comment and analysis, how wonderful it is to

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welcome back to Cardiff, Alish Tynan who won the prize ten years ago and

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also Bernarda Fink. The song prize was sometimes viewed as being a

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runners-up prize, but by the time you won it, it developed a life of

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its own? The minute Bryn Terfyyll won the prize, it became the one to

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win. What are you going to be looking for? It's a fantastic

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occasion. I'm for the first time in this kind of venue and it's moving

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to know so many young people are wanting to sing and to sing poetry.

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Some wonderful of musical poetry. Lots more from both of you. Daniele

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will be meeting the singers later on. You know about the

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pre-performance nerves. How do you turn it into something useful?

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key to getting ready is remembering the technical work, the voice

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lessons, all of the preparation that comes with preparing song has

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already been done so it's time to put all these things aside and

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remember that tonight is about telling a story, communicating with

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the audience, communicating with the judges, showing people your very

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essence and your interpretation of these beautiful, beautiful songs.

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They're very exposing and really can show a lot about how you feel about

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music, so putting that aside and channels the nerves into the energy

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that you are going to give out to the audience is at the heart of why

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we are here tonight. We'll let you go backstage. The singers have

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already performed here in the heats in front of a distinguished jury,

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the German tenor, an English soprano and the jury, and a Swedish

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baritone. The Hungarian soprano now, already sung and I'm happy with

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them. It's maybe one of the most important things that your voice has

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to be flexible really. You have to pronounce very well. Have a very

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big, operatic voice. I have to keep this back, more intimate. When

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somebody is such a great pianist, he is of the same thinking of the

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music. I would like to sing in my best. When it's enough to win, of

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course I would like to because everyone likes but I would like to

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be in good shape and show what I can do, then I'm satisfied. And if I can

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# Da kam die dunkle Nacht. # Kein Blumlein war zu finden.

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Tranen in den Klee, #Ein Blumlein # Wohl in dem dunklen Klee.

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Apology for the loss of subtitles for 118 seconds

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# Doch fing es an zu sprechen. MUSIC: "Harmonie du soir" by

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sur sa tige. # Chaque fleur s'evapore ainsi qu'un

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# Les sons et les parfums tournent dans l'air du soir.

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# Valse melancolique et langoureux vertige.

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# Chaque fleur s'evapore ainsi qu'un qu'on afflige.

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# Valse melancolique et langoureux # Szabad-e maset szeretni.

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# Jaj, jaj, jajajaj. # Tudakoztam, de nem szabad. # Igy a

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szivem gyaszban marad. # Igy a szivem gyaszban marad.

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# Jaj Istenem, add megernem. # Kit szeretek, avval elnem.

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# Jaj, jaj, jajajaj; # Ha azt meg nem adod ernem.

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Apology for the loss of subtitles for 118 seconds

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# En Istenem, vegy el engem. tetore" by Bartok.

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# Ha kimegyek arra magas tetore. # Talalok en szeretore, kettore.

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# Ej, baj, baj, baj, de nagy baj. # Hogy a babam szive olyan, mint a

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# Ej, baj, baj, baj, de nagy baj. # Hogy a babam szive olyan, mint a

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vaj. # Nem kell nekem sem a ketto, sem az egy.

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# Csak az az egy, ki igazan szeretett.

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# Ej, baj, baj, baj, de nagy baj. # Hogy a babam szive olyan, mint a

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He loves singing Hungarian. Very important to celebrate and sing in

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what is her native language. Let's get the opinion of my guests

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tonight, Bernarda Fink and Ailish Tynan. Wonderful singing in

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Hungarian at the end? Oh, how refreshing! I just wish more of this

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repertory is on stage in recitals. I think it's a very good thing to have

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not only German and English singers, also Argentinians, hundred fairian

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sing singers. It's -- Hungarian singers. Something interesting

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happened there, there was a lot of hand movement early on and when she

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was singing in Hungarian, she was much stiller. I wondered if that was

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something to do with communicating the words? I'm always encouraging

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young singers to sing repertory. She totally came to life in the second

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of the Bartok. I felt, this is a singer, she's 25 years old, the

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depth of maturity of that singing and the level of commitment and the

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warmth that she gave us all, it's astonishing to be that good so

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young. Did the Debussy have the lustrousness that it needs? I think

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there was room for improvement of the articutation. Her body language

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is OK. I think she really feels what she's singing. I kneel because she's

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25, the top and the bottom of the voice have places to go -- I feel.

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That only comes with age. This isn't a sprint, this career, it's a

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marathon. These are all things that take time and she will grow into it.

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We'll hold it there. Backstage now, Maria is with Danielle.

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Congratulations, fantastic, expressive singer, you sang in

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German, French and then in your native language which was incredible

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to hear. How do you feel tonight? First, thank you very much for this

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compliment, especially from you, Danielle! Well, I felt good and I

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really trusted Simon, he's a wonderful pianist and musician and I

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always enjoy working with him and also I really enjoyed it. What about

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the songs? Debussy was good, but mainly that, yes.

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Congratulations, Maria. Thank you.

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If you are hungry for more song, Radio Three has been broadcasting

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highlights from the heats all week. You can listen to that again online

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and the Cardiff singer website will give you much more information about

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tonight's contenders. Also the line-up for the Grand Final, live

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tomorrow night on BBC Four and do use the hashtag if you want to add

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your thoughts on Twitter. More from the jury and what they are looking

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I think it's fantastic that Cardiff singer has this separate song prize

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because it should be the part of a singer's armoury. Pf

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I usually say to my students that I love performers, between an actor

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and a singer, that balance should be story and you've got to be able to

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tell a story from inside, not from outside. So it's different from the

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he or she can reach me and the audience with their interpretation

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and the most rewarding thing that you ever do when it works perfectly.

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When it doesn't, it's possibly one of the most scariest things you 'll

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ever do. So, on to our second singer of the

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night, bell Russian tenor, Yuri Here in the final, I'll start with

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Rachmaninov and for me, Rachmaninov is so touching, so full of feeling.

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The music that I will finish my programme in the final, it's

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and so heavy. It's a funny one. We get on stage and everybody will be

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thinking, we are so close to each other, and we have the same ideas.

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We have the same feelings. We are like the whole body on the stage in

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that moment and it's important to make the magic on stage.

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So, here is Yuri, who's brought his own pianist with him, Tatiana

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MUSIC: "My Love, Let Us Escape" by Rachmaninov. # Pokinem, milaja.

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# Shumjashchij krug. # Stolicy. Pora v rodimyj kraj.

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# Pora v lesnuju glush'! # Ty slyshish'?

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# Dushi volshebnyje poryvy? # Il' razljubila ty zheltejushchija

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nivy. # I roshchi svezhija.

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Apology for the loss of subtitles for 118 seconds

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And in our next song by Rachmaninov, the streams are running. Spring

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Richard Strauss to finish his set, and first Tomorrow. MUSIC: "Morgen!"

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werde. # Wird uns, die Seligen, sie wieder

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# Was traumen heisst von brennenden Kussen.

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# Von Wandern und Ruhen mit der Geliebten.

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# Aug in Auge. # Und kosend und plaudernd. # Wenn

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du es wusstest. # Du neigtest dein Herz!

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# Wenn du es wusstest. # Was bangen heisst in einsamen

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Nachten. # Umschauert vom Sturm, da niemand

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trostet. # Milden Mundes die kampfmude Seele.

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# Wenn du es wusstest. # Wenn du es wusstest.

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# Was leben heisst, umhaucht von der Gottheit.

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# Weltschaffendem Atem. # Zu schweben empor, lichtgetragen.

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Apology for the loss of subtitles for 118 seconds

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World prise 2013. Tatiana Loisha the pianist for Yuri Gorodetski. They're

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very good friends. They both have other partners but they're very good

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friends. He does Ailish, the Tormented Poet

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very well, doesn't he? Very well. For my ear, it's a very operatic

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selection of songs he's chosen. The Rachmaninov and the one at the end

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all show off his obvious operatic talent. Morgen is a real mood song,

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one of the toughest mood songs there is, isn't it? I think so. Very

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courageous and risky to do this and I think he did it really with big

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control. He has something introverted, the expression and

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lyricism of a poet. So I would wish he'd do more lyrical songs. Again, a

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lovely looking lad, let's not underestimate how important that is

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in this career nowadays with so much of it being on cinema and

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television, great voice and a committed performer. Backstage to

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join Danielle. You must be overwhelmed after

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singing this incredible repertory. Are you a romantic because you have

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offered us such romantic composers? Yes, it's true, I'm a little bit

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crazy after the stage. You definitely tugged on my heart

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strings, picking some really beautiful, lush, romantic songs. We

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got to hear a lot of the range of your voice. Do you think that maybe

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you leave your heart in Cardiff tonight? Yeah, definitely. I left my

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heart on stage just right now. It's true.

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I think Cardiff's collected many hearts over the years. Thanks,

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Danielle. Now, a reminder that while the jury will decide the winner of

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Cardiff singer and the song prize, you can cast your vote as well in

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the Dame Jones Sutherland audience prize. Since it was introduced a

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decade ago, audience and jury have agreed on the winner but once.

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Details of how to vote this year at the website. Now the third singer of

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this song Prize Final, American Out of all the programmes I've put

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together for the Cardiff competition, the song Prize Final is

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my absolute favourite. I'm so excited for it. Particularly

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the last Rachmaninov. It's a very, very special song. I fell in love

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with it the first time I heard it. It took three months for me to find

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the sheet music to this. Rch researchers found it after about a

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month. These are all songs that I feel a great connection to.

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Musically, interpretedly and I'm trying to please the crowd with

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these songs because, isn't that the point? In competitions, there are

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always judges but they are part of the crowd too.

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Here, my job is to make the crowd sit up and go "wow".

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Jamie Barton performing with the other official of the week.

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Apology for the loss of subtitles for 118 seconds

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MUSIC: "Meine Liebe ist grun" by # Varav rodna dina hander, flicka?

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# Flickan sade: Jag har plockat rosor.

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# Ater kom hon fran sin alsklings mote.

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# Kom med roda lappar. Modern sade. # Varav rodna dina lappar, flicka?

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# Flickan sade: Jag har atit hallon. # Ater kom hon fran sin alsklings

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# Flickan sade: Red en grav, o darover.

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# Och pa korset rista, som jag hander.

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# Ty de rodnat mellan alskarns hander.

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# En gang kom hon hem med roda lappar.

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# Ty de rodnat under alskarns lappar.

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# Senast kom hon hem med bleka kinder # Ty de bleknat genom

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Apology for the loss of subtitles for 118 seconds

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# Schitaju kazhdyja mgnoven'ja. the end of her performance here at

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St David's Hall. -- Jamie Barton.

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Her pianist, won composition fissions too.

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-- competitions too. Let's get Bernarda and Ailish's

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opinion. What an operatic singer she is? ! I just loved that. I mean, the

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two of them looked like they were having the time of their lives. I

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hope the people in television land get to see the theatrics of Llyr and

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the piano. They were almost choreographing it. She opens her

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mouth and you just go "wow". ". In the Brahms, oh, the atmosphere she

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was creating, someone in the audience coughed and I felt like I

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was being hit by a shotgun. Oh, it was just superb from beginning to

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end. She is an incredible singer with a huge career ahead of her.

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This quality, this chocolate voice is just amazing and it's wonderful,

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this balance between the high control, technique control she has

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and the total abandonment in interpretation. Sibelius done

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greatly? Just magnificent, fantastic. I had to keep reminding

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myself that she was a mezzo. Yes, radiant high rate. Let's go

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backstage. Sure she'll have much to say about her performance with

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Danielle. Jamie, you were amazing. What a dramatic performance. You

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really let yourself go? ! I tried to, I absolutely love this,

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especially the Sibelius and the Rachmaninov. When you headed on to

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stage, I said "go rocket Jamie" -- "go rock it Jamie" and it was

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mission accomplished. If that's the goal of my job, I think I did it.

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was fantastic, the audience was blown away, you can feel the energy

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in the Haltonite. Congratulations. Thank you so much. Back to you.

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Mary king's been a major part of our Cardiff coverage this week. She's

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been bringing us her unique insight into the challenges faced by the

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young stars taking part in the competition. She considers the

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particular demands of performing Lieder begins with a poem. About 200

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years ago, Schubert revolutionised the way words and song were grafted

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together, creating a new artistic He was prolific too. By the time he

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died a couple of months before his 31st birthday, he'd written over 600

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songs. After Schubert, composers of all

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nationalities explored this medium and through it created brilliant

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work. And it's this that derision heart of any performance, whether in

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English, Spanish, German, Russian or First of all, with only a piano for

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company, the voice is terrifyingly exposed.

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And there has to be perfect synergy between the singer and the penal

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north-east, sculpting every tiny detail of their performance

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It's about bringing a black-and-white text to vibrant,

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colourful life, about understanding the nuances of language to capture a

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mood and tell a story, about harnessing the imagination to paint

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in sound and ultimately, drawing your audience into the world that

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Mary King part of our team for the final live tomorrow night here on

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BBC Four. Maltese tenor Joseph Calea and Karata Matala will be my guests,

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7. 30 tomorrow. In the song prize tonight, three singers down, two to

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go. Danielle is backstage. Are you glad you came to Cardiff? Oh, my

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gosh, I'm so glad I came. I know myself from recitals all over the

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world, it's one of the most special ways to story-tell and watching

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these singers tonight, they are just incredible. They are all

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contributing with their own strengths in different ways.

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On to the fourth sunger tonight. The song prize has always been per file

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ground for singers from these islands. Ailish won for Ireland,

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there have been two Welsh winners and three English singers have been

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victorious in the history. Flying the flag for England tonight, ten

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Ben Johnson. It feels great to be in the final

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and excited to see sing the programme. -- ten tenor, Ben

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Johnson. I've chosen musical songs. Benjamin

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Brittain, then a Shakespeare setting in Paris. I decided to bring my own

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pianist because I thought it was very important that I had someone

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that I knew. I love getting a relationship with a pianist. It's a

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duo after all, it's not just about the singer, so this way I know that

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I don't have to worry about that and I can give it my best.

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Let's see that special relationship on stage between Ben Johnson and his

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return againe. # Into my breast and eyes, which I

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rain. # Mine eyes did waste?

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What griefs my heart did rent? # That sufferance was my sinne; now

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night-scouting thief. # The itchy lecher and self-tickling

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proud. # Have the remembrance of past

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joyes, for relief. To poore me is allow'd.

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# No ease; for long, yet vehement Verlangen.

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# Das an thessal'scher Flut die blonden Haare. # In dir entflammt,

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und ist's im Lauf der Jahre. # Nicht unter in Vergessenheit

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gegangen. # Vor Frost und Nebeln, welche

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feindlich hangen. # Solang' sich uns dein Antlitz birgt, das klare.

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# Jetzt dies geehrte heil'ge Laub # Wo du zuerst, und ich dann ward

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verliebten Hoffen. # Das in der Jugend dich nicht liess

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vergehen. # Lass, von dem Druck befreit, die

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# So werden wir, vom Staunen froh Tenor Ben Johnson.

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That programme of sonnets finishing with the 14th century Italian

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scholar and poet Petrarch. Ben Johnson, former Radio 3 New

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Generation Artist, Wigmore Hall emerging talent, and he won the

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Kathleen Ferrier prize back in 2008. He says if he wins tonight he is

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going to spend his prize money on his wedding in September. Bernarda

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Fink, a very interesting programme. I think he constructed his programme

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around this high poetry. I think he has a very good command of his

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voice, and the articulation is just right. I see a lot of experience

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behind it, and very convincing. I am really impressed. He is the first

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senator night I feel has come out and given us a recital. I just feel

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like you made this huge venue tiny. People were in charm to it. Let's go

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backstage. Ben, you did a wonderful thing by making this programme

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revolve around one theme in that you really took the audience right into

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a very deep place. You could feel the audience was captivated. What

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was going through your mind when you were on stage? I was really happy, I

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was really happy in the music, I was really thinking, I was in the

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moment. We always try to be in the moment and be the people that we

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are, trying to be and I really felt I was five different people. I loved

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it. The audience are just so gorgeous and supportive and you get

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such a wonderful energy from them that makes it easier, it really

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does. Thank you very much. Back to you.

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Straight on with the last singer of the evening. Olena Tokar from the

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# I v bezdonnykh ochakh. # Ni pechal' i ni smekh.

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# I v bezdonnykh ochakh. # U nego shiroki.

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# Shiroki dva kryla. # I legki, tak ljogki.

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# Kak polnochnaja mgla. # Ne ponjat', kak nesjot.

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# I kuda i na chem. # On krylom ne vzmakhnet.

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And now a song of unrequited love by # Dir zu eroffnen.

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# Mein Herz verlangt mich. # Hort' ich von deinem.

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# Darnach verlangt mich. # Wie blickt so traurig.

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# Die Welt mich an! # In meinem Sinne.

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# wohnet mein Freund nur. # Und sonsten keiner.

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# Und keine Feindspur. # Wie Sonnenaufgang. # Ward mir ein

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Vorsatz! # Mein Leben will ich. # Nur zum Geschafte.

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# Von seiner Liebe machen. # Ich denke seiner.

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# Mir blutet das Herz. # Kraft hab' ich keine.

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# Als ihn zu lieben. # So recht im Stillen.

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# Was soll das werden! # Will ihn umarmen.

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MUSIC: "Tell Me What, In The Shade # Skazhi, o chjom v teni vetvej.

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# Kogda priroda otdykhajet. # Pojot vesennij solovej.

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# I chto on pesnej vyrazhajet? # Chto tajno vsem volnujet krov'?

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# Skazhi, skazhi, skazhi, kakoje slovo.

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# Znakomo vsem i vechno novo? # V razdum'je devushka gadajet.

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# Chto tajnym trepetom vo sne. # Jej strakh i radost' obeshchajet?

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# Nedug tot strannyj nazovi. # V kotorom svetlaja otrada.

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# Ty utomlennyj iznyvajesh'. # I zloj pechali vopreki.

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# Khot' prizrak schast'ja prizyvajesh'!

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# Chto uslazhdajet grud' tvoju? # Ne te li zvuki nezemnyje.

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# Kogda uslyshal ty vpervyje. soprano.

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Singing Chai cover ski in the final of the BBC Cardiff Singer Of The

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World. She said doing the recital is like painting a water colour.

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We have heard the five finalists here at Cardiff singer. Bernarda

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Fink, what beautiful colour to her voice, top and bottom? Fantastic,

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beautiful voice. What I realise is, singing is about intelligence, about

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efficient technique. And then, freeing emotions and I feel a lot of

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emotion when she sings. It's the angel. Calm, confident, Ailish,

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completely across the text? That is so funny that she would say she's

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like the sun, I was thinking that, a ray of sunshine. Utterly adorable, I

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want to take her home with me, keep her in a jewellery box when feeling

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Salled, I open it up, perfect technique. Yes.Top notes soaring

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out. Calm presence.Absolutely. think she may have other offers,

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Ailish! Let's go backstage, she's with Danielle.

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What would it mean to you to win BBC Cardiff Singer Of The World Song

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TRANSLATION: Yes, it would mean for her that she might have the

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expectations of the jury met as well. Congratulations. Our last

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finalist today. Back to you. Thank you very much indeed. I'm

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joined by a member of the song prize jury, the German tenor, Christoph

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Pregardien, one of the most acclaimed Leaders our age. Thank you

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for joining us. Glad to be here this week? Yes and it was a real pleasure

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to hear all the young singers bringing to us wonderful programmes.

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Heart warming for you that song lieder is warming? It's very

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important we try to combine the possibilities of opera in song

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because I want to find a lieder singer, also operatic elements.

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Sometimes it's difficult for young singers to judge how far they can go

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with their expressive means. final question. How interested are

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you as a judge in the programmes that the singers have put together?

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I think it's quite a difficult task to find a programme of about 15-20

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minutes which shows all your abilities and which also gives some

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popular things to the audience and also for us, to the judges. I think

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we have heard different approaches to this problem. We'll let you

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downyour fellow jury members. Christoph Pregardien, thank you very

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much indeed. Tomorrow we'll find out who will be Singer Of The World

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2013. Here is a reminder of who's made the final and what we have to

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Jamie Barton from the USA, mezzo soprano.

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Italian soprano, Teresa Romano. Marko Mimica, a base bar tone from

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Croatia. Daniela Mack, a me sew soprano from

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Argentina. Soprano, Olena Tokar, from the

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Ukraine. Ailish Tynan and Bernarda Fink have

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been with me all evening. Let's spin through the five singers. Ailish,

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Maria Celeng, Hungarian? 25 years of age, fantastic, looks gorgeous, has

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so much time left to work the top and the bottom of the voice, but a

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great career ahead of her. I'm going to ask you about the two tenors,

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Bernarda, starting with Yuri Gorodetski? Beautiful voice. I also

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think he has a little way to do in the top. I think, just to work more

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with the body, but so musical and great presence, fantastic presence.

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We are bowled over by the impact Jamie Barton had? American mezzo?

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Yes, fantastic, great singing tonight. For me, it's an operatic

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voice? Ben Johnson representing England? I could see him doing

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different progress of recitals without difficulty. That's an

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important thing. Lastly, Olena Tokar? Oh, I thought she was

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absolutely gorgeous, enchanting in every way. So, I have to put you on

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the spot, Bernarda, who is your winner tonight? Ben. Ben for me as

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well. There was a level of artistry in it and an interpretation that I

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didn't feel was exactly recital singing from everyone else. From

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him, it was a real recital. It's been wonderful having you both, two

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such great song singers with us this evening. Thank you very much so

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much. I think the jury are about to make their way on to the platform.

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And here they are. The judges are on The winner is, Jamie Barton.

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So, American mezzo soprano, Jamie Barton, takes the 2013 BBC Cardiff

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Singer Of The World song prize. Bernarda? Well, it is definitely a

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surprise for us, but she is fantastic. So I'm very happy for her

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and shows how much Bernarda and I know! But she is an absolutely

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stunning singer. Ben Johnson you were rooting for.

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American mezzo Jamie Barton is the winner of the 2013 song prize. We'll

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