Gerald Finley
Julius Drake

Performers

• Gerald Finley, Baritone
• Julius Drake, Piano

Program

• SCHUMANN "Entflieh mit mir und sei mein Weib" from Tragödie, Op. 64, No. 3
• SCHUMANN "Es fiel ein Reif in der Frühlingsnacht" from Tragödie, Op. 64, No. 3
• SCHUMANN Der arme Peter, Op. 53, No. 3
  ·· Der Hans und die Grete tanzen herum
  ·· In meiner Brust
  ·· Der arme Peter wankt vorbei
• SCHUMANN "Lehn deine Wang," Op. 142, No. 2
• SCHUMANN "Es leuchtet meine Liebe," Op. 127, No. 3
• SCHUMANN "Dein Angesicht," Op. 127, No. 2
• SCHUMANN "Mein Wagen rollet langsam," Op. 142, No. 4
• SCHUMANN "Belsatzar," Op. 57
• SCHUMANN "Die feindlichen Brüder," Op. 49, No. 2
• SCHUMANN "Abends am Strand," Op. 45, No. 3
• SCHUMANN "Die beiden Grenadiere," Op. 49, No. 1
• RAVEL Histoires naturelles
  ·· Le Paon
  ·· Le Grillon
  ·· Le Cygne
  ·· Le Martin-pêcheur
  ·· Le Pintade
• BARBER "The Daisies," Op. 2, No. 1
• BARBER "Solitary Hotel," Op. 41, No. 4
• BARBER "Bessie Bobtail," Op. 2, No. 3
• BARBER "Nocturne," Op. 13, No. 4
• IVES "West London"
• IVES "In the Alley"
• IVES "Charlie Rutlage"
• IVES "Slugging a Vampire"
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  Encores:
• RAVEL "Chanson à boire"
• BRITTEN "Bird Scarer’s Song"
• RAVEL "Chanson ecossaise"
  
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  Program is approximately 1 hour, 40 minutes, including one intermission

Bios

• Gerald Finley
  
  Canadian baritone Gerald Finley began singing as a chorister in Ottawa before completing his musical studies in the United Kingdom at the Royal College of Music; King’s College, Cambridge; and the National Opera Studio.
  
  Since his first appearances at Glyndebourne Festival Opera in the Mozart baritone repertoire, Mr. Finley has sung a variety of leading roles at opera houses in London, Berlin, Paris, Amsterdam, Salzburg, New York, Chicago, and San Francisco. He has also created the lead roles in such major premieres as J. Robert Oppenheimer (Doctor Atomic), Harry Heegan (The Silver Tassie), Mr. Fox (Fantastic Mr. Fox), and Jaufré Rudel (L’Amour de loin), and played the title role in the Channel 4 (UK) film Owen Wingrave. His most recent engagements include Eugene Onegin (Eugene Onegin) at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden; Oppenheimer at the Metropolitan Opera; and the Count (Le nozze di Figaro) at the Salzburg Festival.
  
  Mr. Finley’s discography includes collaborations with Sir Simon Rattle, Bernard Haitink, Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Kurt Masur, and Vladimir Jurowski. Among his releases on Hyperion Records are Gramophone Award–winning albums of Schumann’s Dichterliebe and Barber’s songs with Julius Drake. He has been nominated twice—in 2006 and in 2009—as Gramophone’s Artist of the Year.

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• Julius Drake
  
  Pianist Julius Drake specializes in chamber music, working with many of the world’s leading artists. Recent engagements have taken him to the Aldeburgh, Edinburgh, Munich, Schubertiade Schwarzenberg, and Salzburg festivals; Lincoln Center; the Concertgebouw; the Philarmonie (Cologne); the Théâtre du Châtelet; the Musée du Louvre; the Teatro alla Scala; the Gran Teatre del Liceu; the Musikverein and Konzerthaus (Vienna); Wigmore Hall; and the BBC Proms.
  
  Passionate about song, Mr. Drake has created song series for Wigmore Hall, the BBC, and the Concertgebouw, among others. His Julius Drake and Friends series—at London’s historic Middle Temple Hall—has featured many outstanding artists.
  
  Mr. Drake’s discography includes live recordings for the Wigmore Hall Live label, award-winning recordings with Ian Bostridge for EMI, and Gramophone Award–winning albums of Barber’s songs and Schumann’s Lieder (set to Heine) with Gerald Finley.
  
  Among Mr. Drake’s highlights this season are a special concert at Wigmore Hall; Schumann duets and quartets with Dorothea Röschmann, Angelika Kirchschlager, Bostridge, Thomas Quasthoff, and Helmut Deutsch throughout Europe; recitals with Finley in the US, Canada, and Europe; recitals with Bejun Mehta at the Edinburgh International Festival and in Barcelona, London, and Brussels; recordings of the complete Liszt songs with Matthew Polenzani; recitals with Alice Coote at Carnegie Hall, the Concertgebouw, and Wigmore Hall; and a European tour with Bostridge and Kirchschlager, performing Wolf’s Spanisches Liederbuch.

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