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...Conductor Pablo Heras-Casado has led multiple Wagners at El Real; the cast includes Canadian bass-baritone Gerald Finley and South Korean bass Jongmin Park....
...Even better was Gerald Finley’s Wolfram, exceptionally eloquent in his blend of words and music, a class act....
...The characters of Lesley, Robert, Ethel, Arthur, Sun and Gerald are beautifully delineated. Only Maugham himself remains something of a cipher....
...moves Germany’s Aareal Bank has proposed to elect former UniCredit boss Jean Pierre Mustier to its supervisory board following the impending departures of board member Sylvia Seignette and chair Hermann Wagner...
...Wagner’s Ring cycle had its first Dublin staging in 1913. That was also its last Dublin staging....
...The performance rises to its highest level whenever Gerald Finley’s beautifully sung Sachs and the exemplary musicians of the LPO are working together to conjure the poetry and emotional depth at the heart...
...Mr Gilliam, chief executive, came up with the original idea when he was trying to coordinate campaigns around his documentary films FiscalNote ● Beginnings: Founded by Tim Hwang, Gerald Yao, Jonathan Chen...
...In this pessimistic view of the opera Gerald Finley’s Golaud, powerfully sung, with every word clear, took on a new dominance....
...One of the biggest influences on that advance was English pianist Gerald Moore, whom Vignoles calls a “kind of mentor”....
...In a couple of months’ time Gerald Finley will be climbing Mount Kilimanjaro in aid of charity....
...Wigmore Hall is presenting Gerald Finley in a “residency” of three recitals this season – hardly enough really to claim to be in residence, but a good opportunity for a singer of catholic tastes to show...
...The agony of Parsifal is personified by Gerald Finley’s Amfortas, a realisation of exceptional musico-dramatic size. Angela Denoke’s Kundry may not look or sound voluptuous but she acts brilliantly....
...In his prime he made three studio recordings with Gerald Moore (1955, 1962 and 1971) and one with Jörg Demus (1968), and it’s the second of the Moore collaborations, taped when Fischer-Dieskau was 38, that...
...Still, there’s room for this sort of inoffensive Wagner when graced by Gerald Finley’s intelligently acted and beautifully intoned Sachs....
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...There is not the slightest attempt to probe beneath Wagner’s deceptively benign surface....
...It all started 25 years ago, when Gerald Finley successfully auditioned for the Glyndebourne chorus....
...Its rambling groove – yes, the Stones could make grooves ramble, in the same way that Wagner made strings rumble – makes it the most appealing, if not the most accessible, of the group’s records....
...The new cycle was written for the bass-baritone Gerald Finley, who performs them here, accompanied by the BSO under James Levine....
...The excellent Gerald Finley, who has played Oppenheimer in every city where the opera has been seen, sings with a magnetic beauty that his unsympathetic character hardly deserves....
...The outstanding performer, at least in vocal terms, is Gerald Finley as Golaud....
...My prize for instrumental recital goes to Piotr Anderszewski’s compilation of Szymanowski’s piano music (EMI) and, in the vocal category, to Gerald Finley’s Ives disc (Hyperion), the perfect match of singer...
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