Elgar: The Crown of India

Elgar: The Crown of India

Elgar: The Crown of India Sir Andrew Davis, ConductorChandos are delighted to present the first complete recording of the masque The Crown of India, performed here by Clare Shearer and Gerald Finley, with the BBC Philharmonic and Sheffield Philharmonic Chorus,...
Britten: Songs & Proverbs of William Blake

Britten: Songs & Proverbs of William Blake

Britten: Songs & Proverbs of William Blake The unbeatable, multi-award-winning partnership of Gerald Finley and Julius Drake turn to the composer Benjamin Britten for their latest Hyperion release.Although Britten is particularly celebrated for the substantial...
Verdi: Otello

Verdi: Otello

Verdi: Otello Sir Colin Davis, ConductorSir Colin Davis’s eagerly anticipated recording of Verdi’s Otello is released on the 10th anniversary of the LSO Live label. Opera has always formed an important part of the label’s output – recording concert performances of...
The Ballad Singer

The Ballad Singer

The Ballad Singer 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...
Robert Schumann: Liederkreis

Robert Schumann: Liederkreis

Robert Schumann: Liederkreis Gerald Finley and Julius Drake return to Schumann, following a magisterially intense Dichterliebe which won them a third Gramophone award. Here they focus on the two contrasting Liederkreis (‘song-circle’) cycles using texts by Heine and...
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