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Isserlis's mobile, feeling but never gushing legato lines… Hough's winged, crystalline partnership. — BBC Music Magazine, December 2005 More…

Release Date: 1st Sep 2008
Catalogue No: CDA67676
Label: Hyperion
Length: 69 minutes

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Excerpt, Schumann: Romanzen und Balladen IV, Op. 64

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Gerald Finley (baritone), Julius Drake (piano)

IIIa. Tragödie I

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IIIb. Tragödie II

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Excerpt, Schumann: Romanzen und Balladen II, Op. 49

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Gerald Finley (baritone), Julius Drake (piano)

I. Die beiden Grenadiere

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Excerpt, Schumann: Romanzen und Balladen I, Op. 45

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Gerald Finley (baritone), Julius Drake (piano)

III. Abends am Strand

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Excerpt, Schumann: Romanzen und Balladen II, Op. 49

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Gerald Finley (baritone), Julius Drake (piano)

II. Die feindlichen Brüder

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Schumann: Romanzen und Balladen III, Op. 53

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Gerald Finley (baritone), Julius Drake (piano)

IIIa. Der arme Peter I

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IIIb. Der arme Peter II

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IIIc. Der arme Peter III

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Schumann: Belsazar, Op. 57

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Gerald Finley (baritone), Julius Drake (piano)

Excerpt, Schumann: Myrthen, Op. 25

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Gerald Finley (baritone), Julius Drake (piano)

VII. Die Lotosblume

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XXI. Was will die einsame Träne?

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XXIV. Du bist wie eine Blume

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Excerpt, Schumann: Lieder Op. 142

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Gerald Finley (baritone), Julius Drake (piano)

II. Lehn' deine Wang' an meine Wang'

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Excerpt, Schumann: Fünf Lieder und Gesänge, Op. 127

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Gerald Finley (baritone), Julius Drake (piano)

III. Es leuchtet meine Liebe

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II. Dein Angesicht so lieb und schön

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Excerpt, Schumann: Lieder Op. 142

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Gerald Finley (baritone), Julius Drake (piano)

IV. Mein Wagen rollet langsam

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Schumann: Dichterliebe, Op. 48

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Gerald Finley (baritone), Julius Drake (piano)

I. Im wunderschönen Monat Mai

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II. Aus meinen Tränen spriessen

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III. Die Rose, die Lilie, die Taube, die Sonne

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IV. Wenn ich in deine Augen seh'

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V. Ich will meine Seele tauchen

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VI. Im Rhein, im heiligen Strome

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VII. Ich grolle nicht

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VIII. Und wüssten's die Blumen, die kleinen

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IX. Das ist ein Flöten und Geigen

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X. Hör' ich das Liedchen klingen

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XI. Ein Jüngling liebt ein Mädchen

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XII. Am leuchtenden Sommermorgen

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XIII. Ich hab' im Traum geweinet

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XIV. Allnächtlich im Traume

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XV. Aus alten Märchen

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XVI. Die alten, bösen Lieder

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Why another Dichterliebe recording? Because Gerald Finley has simply one of the greatest voices of his generation, and is an artist at the peak of his powers. He brings to this noble song cycle the supreme technical ability and penetrating musical understanding that characterize all his performances, whether on the concert platform, in the recording studio or on the great opera stages of the world. This is his fourth disc with collaborator Julius Drake, and the partnership has proved to be a uniquely rewarding one.

This fine recital also includes many of Schumann’s other Heine settings. The extremes of elation and despair in Heine’s poetry stimulated Schumann to write some of his most poignant and unforgettable songs. This is truly a disc to treasure.

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December 2005

Isserlis's mobile, feeling but never gushing legato lines… Hough's winged, crystalline partnership.

September 2008

Finley's performance gives huge pleasure and insight…

2010

In close collusion with the ever-sentient Julius Drake, Gerald Finley gives one of the most beautifully sung and intensely experienced performances on disc of Schumann's cycle of rapture, disillusion and tender regret. This is a Dichterliebe firmly in the past tense, the poetlover achingly resigned from the outset. Finley sings the second song, 'Aus meinen Tränen', as if in a trance, and lingers luxuriantly, even masochistically, over the remembered 'Ich liebe dich' in 'Wenn ich' in deine Augen seh''. Yet here and elsewhere some dangerously slow tempi are vindicated by the acuity of his verbal and musical responses. Where most singers end 'Im Rhein' in wistful tenderness, Finley infuses his final words with a wry bitterness. The disenchantment of 'Ich grolle nicht' is already glimpsed. In the cycle's latter stages Finley veers between numb reverie and acerbic self-dramatisation.
The birds' assuaging response in 'Am leuchtenden Sommermorgen' is magical, barely breathed, the mounting trauma of the funereal dream-song 'Ich hab' im Traum geweinet' chillingly conveyed, the dissolving vision of the penultimate 'Aus alten Märchen' relived with ineffable sadness. Adding a cutting edge to his warm, mahogany baritone, Finley imbues the final song with savage irony, before the rueful, healing close. Throughout, Drake's playing is a model of clarity and acutely observed detail (he is more attentive than most to bass-lines), epitomised in his fluid, exquisitely voiced epilogue.
Singer and pianist are just as compelling in the other Heine settings here. The church acoustic is more resonant than is ideal for Lieder, though that hardly detracts from a glorious Schumann recital.

November 2008

In close collusion with the ever-sentient Julius Drake, Gerald Finley gives one of the most beautifully sung an intensely experience performances on dic of Schumann's cycle of rapture, disillusion and tender regret. This is a Dichterliebe firmly in the past tense, the poet-lover achingly resigned from the outset. Singer and pianist are just as compelling in the other Heine settings here.

2010 edition

[Finley] sings Schumann's great song-cycle with much tonal beauty and feeling, above all capturing the deep disillusion of Schumann's inspiration

14th September 2008

[Finley] brings eloquence to the text and maturity to his interpretations, but with a still youthful-sounding voice. Darker and more “bassy” of tone than Dieskau, he is especially impressive in the sardonic and bitter songs...Finley is a gripping narrator, too, in the tale of Belshazzar’s feast, and can refine his voice to the most arresting of internalised confidences in the love songs to Clara Wieck.

5th September 2008

Finley is a much less knowing, more direct performer than Fischer-Dieskau, concentrating less on precise verbal nuance (though his German diction is wonderfully clear) than on more generalised expressive contours, but the effect is still overwhelmingly powerful.

6th September 2008

Doubts as to whether the world needs yet another Dichterliebe are allayed by a performance that probes the extremes of Schumann's evocation of remembered, blighted love. Gerald Finley's burnished baritone is one of the most beautiful voices to have recorded the cycle.

METRO

Grotesquerie, beauty, irony, sentimentality and overwhelming passion mingle to breathtaking effect...His in-the-moment honesty is matched note-for-note by pianist Julius Drake, who partners him with a superb sense of drama and detail. It's a recital which can stand comparison with the greatest Schumann recordings.

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