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Recital

8 December 2002

Alice Tully Hall, New York [debut]

Gerald Finley

Julius Drake

 

Duparc:

L'invitation au voyage

Le manoir de Rosemonde

Extase

Le galop

 

 

VaughanWilliams - 5 Songs from Songs of Travel:

The Vagabond

Youth and Love

The infinite shining heavens

Whither must I wander

Bright is the ring of words

 

 

Barber - 5 Melodies from Melodies passageres:

Puisque tout passé

Un cygnet

Tombeau dans un parc

Le clocher chante

Depart

 

 

 

Emanuel:

The desert

 

 

Turnage:

No 1 of Three Songs

 

 

Noel Coward:

Why do the wrong people travel

 

 

 

Anthony Tommasini, New York Times, 6 December 2002

 

The Canadian bass-baritone Gerald Finley came to wide attention after his acclaimed portrayal of Mozart's Figaro at the Glyndebourne Festival in 1994. Since then he has continued to win praise in opera and the recital stage for his warm, secure voice and unmannered musicianship. For his recital with the pianist Julius Drake on Sunday at Alice Tully Hall, Mr. Finley's only New York appearance of the season, he will perform an interesting program of songs by Vaughan Williams, Britten, Duparc, Barber, Noël Coward and Mark-Anthony Turnage, who composed the opera ''The Silver Tassie,'' in which Mr. Finley starred at its premiere two years ago at the English National Opera.