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What’s New on geraldfinley.info

Gerald Finley talks to GF.info: click the photos to read our 3 interviews

          
from the makers of http://www.simonkeenlyside.info/ and http://www.juliusdrake.info

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19 DECEMBER 2009

Scrapbook

Opera News Awards

12 DECEMBER 2009

Schedule 2010

Performance (concert & recital)

• A short piece in the Independent: Concert choice, recital at the Wigmore Hall with Gerald Finley and Joan Rodgers, 3 March 1998

10 DECEMBER 2009

Performance (opera)

• A 5 out of 5 star review (Telegraph) of last week's Otello at the Barbican, plus this lovely photo of Iago and Otello sharing a backstage moment... Click for the performance page

  

7 DECEMBER 2009

Performance (opera)

• More stunningly good reviews of Gerry's Iago... "His Iago prompts a full reassessment: it had colour, character, credibility." The FT;  "Gerald Finley was superb as Iago: insidiously sinister, yet sustaining a wonderfully suave line." The Times. Oh how true. Click photo to read in full...

  

6 DECEMBER 2009

Performance (opera)

• Some wonderful photos (with kind permission of Intermezzo) of the last Thursday's curtain call for Otello... Click on the bearded baddie (boooooooooooooo!) to see the rest...

   

5 DECEMBER 2009

Performance (opera)

• Fantastic reviews of the magnificent Otello at the Barbican: "This Iago was very subtle and the pleasantness of Finley’s tone and the feigned ordinariness of demeanour when in public made the duplicity of the character even more chilling" Classicalsource; "honey-toned yet unsettlingly amoral" The Guardian;  "Gerald Finley’s remarkable Iago" OperaBritannia; Iago's "tremendous performance, a whiff of theatricality in every line" The Independent. Click the photo of stupendous new Otello, Simon O'Neill, for performance details and reviews...

   

4 DECEMBER 2009

Performance (opera)

• The first review (What's On Stage) of the magnificent Otello premiered at the Barbican last night: "Finley’s mature, glowering Iago and their youthful appearance paid off, as this malevolent Don Alfonso manipulated the boys to his evil ends". Many congratulations to the performers, especially Simon O'Neill (and Gerry of course), from all at GF.info. Huge congratulations also to Sir Colin Davis in being awarded the Queen's Medal for Music 2009, announced before yesterday's performance. Click the photo for performance details...

   

CD / DVD

• News that Gerry's Arias in English CD for Chandos will be released in February 2010

2 DECEMBER 2009

Performance (opera)

• News that Torsten Kerl has had to withdraw from Otello at the Barbican due to illness: He is being replaced at short notice by Simon O'Neill. 

30 NOVEMBER 2009

CD / DVD

• Magnificent review from BBC Radio 3 "CD Review" of Dido and Aeneas: "Gerald Finley is SUPERB as Aeneas." Click CD cover...

  

Performance (opera)

• More details of the cast of this week's Otello, plus from the Saurday Telegraph's "Where to go, what to do" choice, starring "the great baritone Gerald Finley making his debut as Iago"

Scrapbook

• Two wonderful photos of Gerry (plus conductor Edward Gardner) by Sim Canetty-Clarke from the recording session for Gerry's forthcoming Aria CD for Chandos. Click thumbnail...

  

24 NOVEMBER 2009

CD / DVD

• Details of "Within a Dream", the CD released to celebrate the Artistry of Richard Hickox (1948-2008) and featuring tracks from several Chandos CDs including Gerry's Pilgrims Progress and award-winning Stanford Songs of the Sea. Click cover for details...

  

• A hugely-deserved eulogy from Opera News of Gerry's Ravel CD: "The key here is the Canadian's entirely natural approach, free of affectation or overinterpretation and supported by a voice of consistent beauty, warmth and flexibility."  Click cover...

Opera News Award

• A couple of photos, courtesy of http://www.geraldfinley.com, of Gerry during the 2009 Opera News Award Ceremony. Click below to see details...

Broadcast Schedule

• On the 25 December 2009 at 11.03 am (precisely!) Austrian radio station OE1 will broadcast the following performance recorded in Vienna, 8 Dec 2006: Johann Sebstian Bach: a) Nun komm der Heiden Heiland, Kantate, BWV 61; b) Weihnachtsoratorium, BWV 248 (Kantaten 1 - 3) Christine Schäfer, Bernarda Fink, Werner Güra, Gerald Finley, Arnold Schoenberg-Chor, Concentus Musicus Wien, Nikolaus Harnoncourt. Click CD cover for more details of this recording...

  

14 NOVEMBER 2009

Performance (concert & recital)

• News of Gerry's opera News Award will be posted on its own page in this section: the ceremony takes place on Friday 19 November - everyone at GF.info wishes Gerry a wonderful time. Click below for details of the ceremony...

   

13 NOVEMBER 2009

Performance (concert & recital)

• A wonderful review, very kindly translated by Carolina, of Gerry's recital with Julius Drake in Madrid last week. Click photo to read...

Broadcast schedule

• TOMORROW: BBC Radio 3 CD Review for Saturday 14 November 2009 Between 9.05 and 9.35am. ELGAR: The Crown of India (orch. Payne) [2 versions, No 2 ed. Davis]; Imperial March; Empire March; Coronation March. Clare Shearer (mezzo-soprano) / Gerald Finley (baritone) / Barbara Marten (narrator) / Deborah McAndrew (narrator) / Joanne Mitchell (narrator) / Sheffield Philharmonic Chorus / BBC Philharmonic / Sir Andrew Davis (conductor). Click cover for CD details, Click here for broadcast details

• Next Wednesday 18 November at 12.00, BBC Radio 3 Composer of the week “Purcell and his contemporaries”. John Blow: Venus and Adonis (Act 3) Rosemary Joshua (soprano), Gerald Finley (baritone), Clare College Chapel Choir, Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, Rene Jacobs (director). Click cover for CD details, Click here for broadcast details

11 NOVEMBER 2009

Interviews

• An interview from 2003 for the Friends of Musikverein magazine, kindly translated by our own Petra. Click here to read...

10 NOVEMBER 2009

CD / DVD 

• News confirming that 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

• Details of Gerry's latest CD: Elgar's Crown of India (premiere recording) on the Chandos label. Click CD cover...

  

3 NOVEMBER 2009

Performance (concert & recital)

• Some curtain call photos of Gerry's magnificent Beethoven's 9th in Munich last week. With many thanks to the photographer. Click photo...

  

Performance (concert & recital)

• Details of Gerry and Julius's recital programme in Madrid tonight, plus news that it will be broadcast live on Radio Nacional España. Click photo...

  

2 NOVEMBER 2009

Performance (concert & recital)

• Some great photos of Gerry's magnificent concert of Beethoven's 9th in Munich last week, plus a link to a short video showing some rehearsal footage. Click photo...

  

24 OCTOBER 2009

Performance (concert & recital)

• A magnificent, 4.5 star review (Musicalcriticism.com) of Gerry's recent recital with Julius Drake in Brussels: They "...gave a wonderful performance, replete with an especially apposite encore, that was full of the sort of authoritative fluency and interpretative nuance the duo have become famous for." Click photo for details and review...

  

19 OCTOBER 2009

Performance (concert & recital)

• A review (ConcertoNet) in French of Gerry's recent Elijah in Geneva. Many thanks to the Yahoo group. A translation will appear asap

Interviews [well, an article really...]

• From the November issue of Opera News, a eulogy on Gerry (plus lovely photo) as one of the 5 recipients of the 2009 Opera News Awards - ceremony to be held on 19 November 

14 OCTOBER 2009

Performance (concert & recital)

• Details of the Director's Gala Concert at the Wigmore Hall, 10 May 2003 - with many thanks to the Wigmore Hall archive

CD / DVD

• A magnificent review from Opera Britannia of Sarah Connolly and Gerry as Dido and Aeneas: "Gerald Finley is an ideal Aeneas". Click the CD cover for details

13 OCTOBER 2009

Video/audio clips

• A marvellous audio clip from Youtube of Gerry singing "Tu decides son sort... o toi, l'objet le plus aimable" from the 2002 Glyndebourne production of Iphigenie en Aulide. Click the photo to find the clip

Performance (concert & recital)

• A mixed review (great about Gerry) from The Independent of the concert at the Barbican on 3 Oct.

10 OCTOBER 2009

Interviews

• A transcription of Gerry being interviewed for BBC Radio 3 about his concert at the Barbican of Mahler and Mus(s)orgsky. Broadcast in the Performance on 3 interval. 

Performance (concert & recital)

• Two more fabulous reviews (Guardian & Classicalsource) of Gerry singing Mahler and Mus(s)orgsky at the Barbican last Saturday:  Gerald Finley “…in commanding and communicative form, savouring every word, and as sublimely beautiful, evocative and witty as you could want” Classicalsource.com; “…with convincingly Russian vocal heft and killer charm.” The Guardian

6 OCTOBER 2009

Performance (concert & recital)

• Marvellous review (Telegraph) of Saturday's concert at the Barbican with Gerry singing four songs from Mahler's Des Knaben Wunderhorn - Gerry's first performance of them! - and Mus(s)orgsky's Songs and Dances of Death. This concert was broadcast last night on BBC Radio 3 and is available to Listen again for 6 more days - highly recommended

Interview (& CD/DVD)

• Short interview with Gerry upon his 2009 Gramophone Award with Julius Drake, in the November issue of Gramophone magazine

3 OCTOBER 2009

************* News **************

Huge congratulations to Gerry and Julius Drake for their 2009 Gramophone award in the Best Solo Vocal album category. Click below for details

30 SEPTEMBER 2009

Broadcast schedule

·        Gerry’s concert from the Barbican this Saturday will be broadcast as the Radio 3 'Performance on 3' at 7pm on Monday 5 October: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00n1p8f. Many thanks Lucy

·        ...also excerpts from Gerry and Julius’s Wigmore Live CD of songs by Tchaikovsky and Ives will be broadcast on BBC Radio 3 on 7 October at 10.05am. http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00n1qjcThanks again to Lucy

Scrapbook

·        A short article written by Gerry in the October issue of Gramophone: Placido Domingo as Otello. Many thanks Gwyn 

21 SEPTEMBER 2009

CD / DVD

·        The photographer, Sim Canetty Clarke, is very kindly allowing us to reproduce her wonderful photoshoot of Gerry and Julius recording their Ravel CD. Many thanks indeed Sim (and to the two gentlemen). 

17 SEPTEMBER 2009

Video / audio clips

·        The most wonderful audio clip of Gerry singing the Pierrotlied from the ROH production of Die tote Stadt earlier this year... Many thanks indeed to Caroline on the Facebook GF appreciation site

2 SEPTEMBER 2009  

********************* News *********************

The team that bring you http://www.geraldfinley.info and http://www.simonkeenlyside.info are now creating http://www.juliusdrake.info to showcase the work of our favourite co-performer in recital. Click below to view the site...

Schedule 2010

·        Dates and details of Gerry's Don Giovanni next year at Glyndebourne. Many thanks Lucy

29 AUGUST 2009  

Biography

·        Gerry (along with Simon Keenlyside and Julius Drake) is one of the artists involved with the Jean Meikle Music Trust, an organisation which seeks to encourage outstanding young voice and piano partnerships and funds the Song Duo Prize in the Wigmore International Song Competition. The 2009 competition starts next week (6-11 Sept)

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