The Ballad Singer - Gerald Finley, Julius Drake
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This latest release from the multi-award-winning partnership of Gerald Finley and Julius Drake features a literary and musical form which inspired the greatest voices of German Romanticism. The foremost poets and composers of the age saw the ballad as a direct link to the folk-minstrels of the past. Frequently ghoulish and sensational in character, ballads satisfied the popular taste for the Gothic. This disc contains some of the greatest examples of the form, including Schubert’s Erlkönig, as well as some fascinating and lesser-known works. The disc also includes selections from the ever popular English ballad tradition.
Gerald Finley’s unrivalled gift for characterization and story-telling, honed both on the stages of opera houses around the world and through his extraordinary Lieder recordings, makes him the ideal performer of these works. This is a genuinely entertaining and original disc.
Tracklisting
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anon.: |
O where hae ye been, Lord Randall, my son? traditional, arr. Cyril Scott |
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Beethoven: |
Mephistos Flohlied, Op. 75, 3 |
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Brahms: |
Es war ein Markgraf überm Rhein (No. 29 from Deutsche Volkslieder, WoO 33) |
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Emanuel: |
Alone in the desert, alone, I'm alone |
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Loewe, C: |
Edward, Op. 1 No. 1 (Herder) Die wandelnde Glocke, Op. 20 No..3 |
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Mahler: |
Wo die schönen Trompeten blasen (Des Knaben Wunderhorn) |
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Porter, C: |
The Tale of the Oyster |
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Schubert: |
Erlkönig, D328 |
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Schumann: |
Die Löwenbraut, Op. 31 No. 1 Der Schatzgräber, Op. 45 No. 1 |
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Stanford: |
La Belle Dame sans merci (John Keats) (1877) |
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Sullivan, A: |
The Lost Chord |
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Wolf, H: |
Der Feuerreiter (No. 44 from Mörike-Lieder) |
