Gerald Finley, baritone and Julius Drake, piano

Concert at the Austrian Embassy presented by the Vocal Arts Society

May 17, 2010, 9:00 pm

The New Yorker magazine compared Canadian baritone Gerald Finley to "the greatest singers, from Callas to Sinatra."  Ann Midgette in a Washington Post review of Finley's Austrian Embassy recital wrote, "what he did was simply inhabit [the songs], with tremendous precision of detail, so that each one came alive, a small world of its own." Front Row Washington is proud to present Gerald Finley and Julius Drake in recital, recorded live at the Austrian Embassy, March 17, 2010, under the auspices of the Vocal Arts Society of Washington. The program features music by Schumann, Ravel, Barber and Ives.

Featured performances:

Robert Schumann:  Heine settings
 Tragoedie I, II Op.64 No.3
 Der arme Peter I, II, III Op.53 No.3
 Lehn' deine Wang' Op.142 No.2
 Es leuchtet meine Liebe Op.127 No.3
 Dein Angesicht Op.127 No.2
 Mein Wagen rollet langsam Op.142 No.4
 Belsazar Op.57
 Die feindlichen Brueder Op.49. No.2
 Abends am Strand Op.45 No.3
 Die beiden Grenadiere Op.49 No.1

Maurice Ravel: Histoires Naturelles
 Le paon
 Le grillon
 Le cygne
 Le martin-pecheur
 La pintade

SAMUEL BARBER: 4 Four Songs
 The Daisies
 Solitary Hotel
 Bessie Bobtail
 Nocturne

CHARLES IVES -  Four Songs
 West London
 In the Alley
 Charlie Rutledge
 Slugging a Vampire

Ravel
 From Don Quichotte a Dulcinee, Chanson a boire

Tchaikovsky
 None but the Lonely Heart