Grammy Award-winning Gerald Finley is one of the most revered artists of our time. The great Canadian bass-baritone returns to Middle Temple Hall alongside Julius Drake ("collaborative pianist nonpareil" - The New Yorker) in Night and Day, a wonderful selection of songs:
Schumann: Heine settings (1840)
Lehn’ deine Wang’
Es leuchtet meine Liebe
Dein Angesicht
Mein Wagen rollet langsam
Belsazar
Die feindlichen Brüder
Abends am Strand
Die beiden Grenadiere
Schubert: Heine settings (1828)
from Schwanengesang
Der Atlas
Ihr Bild
Das Fischermädchen
Die Stadt
Am Meer
Der Doppelgänger
Duparc: Cinq Mélodies
Serenade
Soupir
Le Manoir
L'invitation au Voyage
Phidylé
Night and Day
Britten: Um Mitternacht
Peel: The Early Morning
Vaughan Williams: Silent Noon
Liszt: Go not happy day
Ives: When stars are in the quiet skies
Porter: Night and Day
100 minutes (including interval)
"Mr Finley has long been recognized as a recitalist of rare versatility, a concert artist of the first rank and an opera singer of distinction in a broad repertory."
The New York Times