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SHOSTAKOVICH
Songs
Gerald Finley (baritone) Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra, Thomas Sanderling
[ Ondine / CD ]
Release Date: Friday 1 November 2013
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Canadian baritone Gerald Finley is one of the leading singers and dramatic interpreters of his generation. This is his debut recording with Ondine, already having many award-winning performances on CD and DVD.
In recital, Finley regularly works with Julius Drake and has performed cycles by Barber, Britten, Ives, Ravel and Schumann.
Thomas Sanderling enjoys a close relationship with the Shostakovich family and still works in close collaboration with Irina Shostakovich. It was Irina who provided the manuscript for the orchestral version of the Romances on Verses by British Poets, and expressly wished Sanderling to make the first ever recording of this version.
"Finley applies his consummate technical facility and unfailing interpretive instincts to elucidate each text in its special musical context-which in most cases ranks many degrees darker than anything in, say, Schubert's Winterreise, and is more profoundly demanding of dramatic expression than most solo-song works. This is one of those recordings that affirms its value not only by presenting something truly new and important from something familiar, but by doing it in such a way that it invites you to listen and then compels you to come back, not for a voice, or a tune, or a message, but to be moved by the whole experience of a great performance of timeless music" (10/10 ClassicsToday April 2014)
Finley, always an intelligent and rewarding singer, has produced something rather special here...Finley, who studied medieval Italian, has fashioned an authentic text to work with Shostakovich's music [for the Michelangelo poems]...The result is both moving and profound, with Finley at his warm and sinuous best." (The Observer)
Tracks:
Six Romances on Verses by Raleigh, Burns and Shakespeare, Op. 62/140
Scottish Ballade
Suite on verses by Michelangelo Buonarroti, for bass & orchestra, Op. 145a
