Gerald Finley, baritone
Julius Drake, piano
Live from Wigmore Hall
January 15, 2013
Vocally, the bass-baritone was on fine form, rising above an occasional slight throatiness lower down and the odd moment of insecurity in his softer singing to deliver quality tone deployed with a full range of colour and dynamics.
After conveying the simplicity of Schubert's blind boy (whose tapping stick was highlighted by Drake), the perverse malice of his dwarf and the spiritual stoicism of his monk left behind by the crusaders in Der Kreuzzug, Finley pulled off a virtuoso display in Erlkönig with four clearly defined characters – the narrator, the father, the doomed son and the Erl-King himself – bringing the first half shuddering to a close.
Der Strom
Der blinde Knabe
Im Frühling
Grenzen der Menschheit
An Schwager Kronos
Der Zwerg
Der Schiffer
Der Kreuzzug
Der Einsame
Erlkönig
Part 2 (Mahler) here
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