The Ballad Singer

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they're all tales and Finley is a fine tale-teller. In Loewe, he sounds as though he's singing just for you, the listener, so rapt and intense is his communication. Drake is a fine accomplice,... — BBC Music Magazine, July 2011, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 31st May 2011
Catalogue No: CDA67830
Label: Hyperion
Length: 71 minutes

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Excerpt, Beethoven: Lieder (6), Op. 75

Work length2:16

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Gerald Finley (baritone), Julius Drake (piano)

III. Aus Goethes Faust

Track length2:16

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Loewe, C: Edward, Op. 1 No. 1 (Herder)

Work length6:37

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Gerald Finley (baritone), Julius Drake (piano)

Loewe, C: Die wandelnde Glocke, Op. 20 No. 3

Work length2:02

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Gerald Finley (baritone), Julius Drake (piano)

Schubert: Erlkönig, D328

Work length4:22

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Gerald Finley (baritone), Julius Drake (piano)

Excerpt, Schumann: Gesänge (3), Op. 31

Work length9:24

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Gerald Finley (baritone), Julius Drake (piano)

I. Die Löwenbraut

Track length9:24

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

Work length3:20

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Gerald Finley (baritone), Julius Drake (piano)

I. Der Schatzgräber

Track length3:20

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anon.: 49 Deutsche Volkslieder, WoO33

Work length3:31

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Gerald Finley (baritone), Julius Drake (piano)

XXIX. Es war ein Markgraf überm Rhein

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Excerpt, Wolf, H: Gedichte von Eduard Mörike

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Gerald Finley (baritone), Julius Drake (piano)

XLIV. Der Feuerreiter

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Mahler: Wo die schönen Trompeten blasen (Des Knaben Wunderhorn)

Work length7:44

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Gerald Finley (baritone), Julius Drake (piano)

Stanford: La Belle Dame sans merci (John Keats) (1877)

Work length6:05

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Gerald Finley (baritone), Julius Drake (piano)

anon.: Lord Randall

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Gerald Finley (baritone), Julius Drake (piano)

Sullivan, A: The Lost Chord

Work length4:17

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Gerald Finley (baritone), Julius Drake (piano)

Emanuel: The Desert

Work length6:55

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Gerald Finley (baritone), Julius Drake (piano)

Porter, C: The Tale of the Oyster

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Gerald Finley (baritone), Julius Drake (piano)

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This latest release from the multi-award-winning partnership of Gerald Finley and Julius Drake features a literary and musical form which inspired the greatest voices of German Romanticism. The foremost poets and composers of the age saw the ballad as a direct link to the folk-minstrels of the past. Frequently ghoulish and sensational in character, ballads satisfied the popular taste for the Gothic. This disc contains some of the greatest examples of the form, including Schubert’s Erlkönig, as well as some fascinating and lesser-known works. The disc also includes selections from the ever popular English ballad tradition.

Gerald Finley’s unrivalled gift for characterization and story-telling, honed both on the stages of opera houses around the world and through his extraordinary Lieder recordings, makes him the ideal performer of these works. This is a genuinely entertaining and original disc.

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July 2011

they're all tales and Finley is a fine tale-teller. In Loewe, he sounds as though he's singing just for you, the listener, so rapt and intense is his communication. Drake is a fine accomplice, tuning his fingers to full orchestral capacity for Schumann's psycho-drama 'Die Löwenbraut' and Wolf's 'Der Feuerreiter'

August 2011

Their approach to text and music consistently casts light on turbulent emotions, at times glaring in its dramatic intensity at others passed through restraining filters. The recital's heart pulses with Wolf's Der Feuerreiter and a spine-tingling account of Stanford's La belle dame sans merci.

July 2011

Drake's playing has successfully suited the varied repertoire. Finley has enthralled with his interpretations and delighted with his singing purely as singing, combining the two aspects expertly.

18th June 2011

Listen to these wonderfully melodramatic, mostly Victorian ballads by candlelight in a haunted house...Performances full of raging fortissimos and ghoulish tremolandos from Finley and his pianist Julius Drake.

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