Recordings
Bach--Cantata No.61: Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland (Advent), BWV61
Werner Güra Tenor, Concentus Musicus Wien--Orchestra, Christine Schäfer Soprano, Gerald Finley Bass, Arnold Schoenberg Chor Chorus/Choir, Nikolaus Harnoncourt Conductor
Gerald Finley sings the one-minute recitative "Siehe, ich stehe vor der Tür und klopfe an"
CD amazon.com, release date 8 December 2009
MP3 amazon.com
CD amazon.co.uk, release date 4 January 2010
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Songs of Samuel Barber
Gerald Finley, baritone; Julius Drake, piano
" Samuel Barber's songs, some of the finest of the twentieth century, are short, pithy and varied, and this gripping release from Hyperion brings together many of the composer's finest works in the medium."--Dave Paxton, musicomh.com
"The Canadian baritone . . . lends his plush, consistently focused baritone to 27 songs by one of the most out American composers of the 20th century. For anyone who, like me, finds Barber's vocal compositions the most rewarding of all his music, the disc will come as a treasure."--Tim Pfaff, Bay Area Reporter
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BEETHOVEN: Symphony No. 9 ("Choral")
Twyla Robinson, soprano; Karen Cargill, mezzo-soprano; John MacMaster, tenor; Gerald Finley, bass. London Symphony Orchestra and Chorus, Bernard Haitink conducting. (LSO Live)
David Patrick Stearns writes for bradenton.com that "in the choral finale, the disc is almost worth its price for bass soloist Gerald Finley, since nobody sings these crabbed vocal lines with more clarity and meaning."
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BRAHMS: Ein deutsches Requiem
"Among the soloists is Canadian baritone Gerald Finley, whose Herr, lehre doch mich is probably the finest rendition of that grave aria available."--Richard Todd, The Ottawa Citizen
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BRITTEN: Songs & Proverbs of William Blake
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Handel: Messiah [Hybrid SACD] |
Ives: Romanzo di Central Park
"The astonishing range Ives exhibits in the 30 songs on the disc--some comic, others serious--is astonishing. Finley, in even better voice than on the Barber CD, and Drake, relishing Ives' complexities, dig deep into them all."--Tim Pfaff, Bay Area Reporter
"More than any other performers on disc, Finley and Drake establish these songs, with all their quirks and flights of fantasy, among the most important of the 20th century in any language."--Andrew Clements, The Guardian "Un disque brillant." - Christophe Huss, ledevoir.com Mozart: Don Giovanni /
Dawson, Ainsley, Finley (as Masetto),
Halgrimson, Miles, A. Schmidt (as Don Giovanni), Yurisich; Norrington --- --- --- Schumann: Dichterliebe and other Heine settings "Grotesquerie, beauty, irony, sentimentality and overwhelming passion mingle to breathtaking effect in Canadian bass-baritone Gerald Finley's all-Schumann disc Dichterliebe & Other Heine Settings (Hyperion)."--Warwick Thompson, metro.co.uk
Great Operatic Arias, in English Songs of travel Songs by Ralph Vaughan Williams, Derek Holman,
and Benjamin Britten Gerald Finley, Stephen Ralls Amazon.co.uk is
under the strange impression that the Songs of Travel were
written by Maurice Ravel.
Purcell: Dido and Aeneas
Stanford - Songs of the Sea; The Revenge; Songs of the
Fleet [SACD]
~ Charles Villiers Stanford
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