Gerry's recordings

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Below is a list, in alphabetical order by composer or title, of Gerald Finley's recordings.

Click photos and links for details of each recording along with reviews and awards

 

New Releases 

Otello

The two concert performances of Verdi's Otello recorded live on 3 and 6 December 2009 at the Barbican will be released under the LSO Live label

English arias CD and Pelleas et Melisande for Chandos

CD of arias for the Chandos Opera in English series; recording was in September 2009 with release date February 2010

Gerry is to be Golaud in the forthcoming Pelleas et Melisande for Chandos Opera in English. Cast includes Rebecca Evans and John Tomlinson. The Orchestra of the Age of Englightenment, conducted by Mark Wigglesworth

Britten CD for Hyperion

CD of Britten songs, including Tit for Tat and the Blake songs, recorded last year and due for release in 2010

 

Great Operatic Arias - click CD cover for details

 

Elgar: The Crown of India

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Songs by Ravel (CD)

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***** FIVE STARS ***** BBC Music Magazine, July 2009

Editor's Choice, Gramophone, August 2009

 

Dido & Aeneas (CD)

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5 out of 5 stars, The Sunday Times

Editor's Choice, Gramophone, February 2009

Classic FM radio, Disc of the Month for February 2009

 

Wigmore Live (CD)

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Nominated in the Vocal category for the BBC Music Magazine 2009 awards

“Finley captured on peak form in a stimulating and varied recital… A genuine treat, this, and not to be missed.” Gramophone

“…this disc reinforces Gerald Finley's credentials as one of the finest non-native singers of Russian.” The Telegraph

“Gerald Finley triumphs in his Wigmore recital” 5 out of 5 stars: BBC Music magazine

5 out of 5 stars: Classic FM magazine

Best CDs of 2008: Evening Standard


Schumann Dichterliebe & other Heine settings

Classic FM Gramophone awards 2009 winner of Best Solo Vocal album: Click below

Nominated for a 2009 Canadian Juno Award in the 'Classical Album of the Year: Vocal or Choral Performance' category.

One of Alex Ross’ Ten Best Classical-Music Recordings of 2008: The New Yorker, 11 December 2008

Editor's Choice: Gramophone, November 2008

5 out of 5 Stars, Classic FM magazine

“…overwhelmingly powerful” 5 out of 5 stars, The Guardian

  



 

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The following list of recordings is in alphabetical order by composer or title:

Adams: Doctor Atomic (DVD) ROH/Opus Arte, August 2008  

Adams: Wonders are many: The making of Doctor Atomic (Film documentary)  

Aldeburgh Connection: 20th Anniversary CD, 2002  

Allegri Miserere (CD) Angel Records 1990  

Bach: Cantatas Vol 19 (CD) Soli Deo Gloria 2006  

Bach: Weihnachtsoratorium (CD), DHM, November 2007  

Barber: Songs (CD) Hyperion, 2007  

Beethoven: Symphony No 9 'Choral' (CD) LSO Live 2006  

Berlioz, Honegger, Poulenc - Choral works (CD) Classic for Pleasure, 2004  

Berlioz: Enfance du Christ (CD) Hyperion 1995  

Blackford: Voices of Exile (CD) Quartz 2005  

Blow: Venus and Adonis (CD) Harmonia Mundi 1999  

Brahms: Ein Deutches Requiem (CD) Harmonia Mundi 2004  

Bridge: Songs of Frank Bridge (CD) Hyperion 1997  

Britten: Albert Herring (CD) 1997, re-release Naxos 2003  

Britten: Canticles II (CD) 1996, re-release Naxos 2005  

Britten: Death in Venice (DVD) Arthaus Musik 2001  

Britten: Owen Wingrave (DVD) Arthaus Musik 2003  

Britten: War Requiem (CD) London Philharmonic 2006  

Brother Sun Sister Moon (CD) American Gramophone, 1990  

Carols for Christmas with Aled Jones (CD and DVD) Warner 2008 (recorded 1985)  

Christmas Adagios (CD) Decca, 2001  

Christmas Night  - carols of the Nativity (CD) Collegium, 1993  

Duparc: Songs (CD) Musica Viva 2002  

Durufle: Requiem (CD) Herald 2000  

Elgar Crown of India CD  

Foulds: A World Requiem (CD) Chandos, due for release January 2008  

Gibbons: Tudor Church Music (CD) Gaudeamus 1993  

Handel: Coronation Anthems & Dixit Dominus (CD) EMI Classics 2005  

Handel: Messiah (CD) Harmonia Mundi 2005  

Handel: Rinaldo (CD) Decca 2000  

Haydn: Die Schöpfung (The Creation) (CD) Archiv 1997  

Haydn / Schubert: Die Schöpfung (The Creation)/ Magnificat (CD) Teldec 2000  

Haydn: Nelsonmesse, Theresienmesse, etc (CD) Philips 2003  

Haydn: Six Great Masses (CD Box Set) Philips 2004  

Hickox: Within a Dream compilation CD in celebration of Richard Hickox, Chandos 2009  

Holocaust A Musical Memorial Film (DVD) BBC  

Ives: A song - for anything (CD) Hyperion 2005  

Ives: Romanzo di Central Park (CD) Hyperion 2008  

Maxwell Davies: Resurrection (CD) Collins Classics 1995  

Mozart: Cosi fan tutte (CD) EMI 1996  

Mozart: Don Giovanni (CD) EMI 1999  

Mozart: In search of Mozart DVD, Seventh Art Productions, 2006  

Mozart: Le Nozze di Figaro (DVD) Warner Music Vision 1999  

Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro (DVD) Opus Arte, due for release March 2008  

Mozart: Requiem (CD) Harmonia Mundi 2004  

Mozart: Zauberfloete (CD) Polygram/Deutsche Grammophon 1996  

Mozart: Die Zauberfloete (Video) DG Archiv Produktion, 1996  

Purcell: Dido and Aeneas (CD) Harmonia Mundi 2006  

Purcell Dido & Aeneas Chandos CD  

Purcell: King Arthur (CD) Polygram/Deutsche Grammophon 1999  

Purcell: The Indian Queen (CD) Polygram 1995  

Ravel: Songs - with Julius Drake (CD) Hyperion. Release date June 2009  

Ravel Songs Photo Gallery  

Rossini: Arias with Della Jones (CD) Chandos, 1992  

Rutter: Christmas Carols (CD), Collegium, 2002  

Saariaho: L'Amour de Loin (DVD) Philips/Deutsche Grammophon 2005  

Schubert Edition No 34 (CD) Hyperion  

Schubert: Schubert Edition No 36 (CD) Hyperion 2000  

Schubert's Friends and Contemporaries (CD) Hyperion  

Schubert: Schubert among friends (CD) Marquis/Aldeburgh Connection 2007  

Schumann: Dichterliebe, etc (CD) Hyperion, 2008  

Schumann: Des Paradies und die Peri (CD) Archiv Produktion 1999  

Stanford: The Revenge, etc (CD) Chandos 2006  

Strauss: Capriccio (DVD) Tdk 2005  

Turnage: Scherzoid (CD) London Philharmonic 2005  

Turnage: The Silver Tassie (CD) ENO Alive 2004  

Turnage: The Torn Fields, etc. (CD) LPO, due for release February 2008  

Vaughan Williams: The Pilgrims Progress (CD) Chandos 1999  

Vaughan Williams: A Sea Symphony (CD) Chandos 2007  

Vaughan Williams, etc: Songs of Travel (CD) Musica Viva 2002  

Webern: Boulez Conducts Webern Vol 3 (CD) Deutsche Grammophon 1997  

Wigmore Hall Live Recital (CD) release date October 2008  

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