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Recital: Gerald Finley – October 14, 1994 | Glenn Gould Studio, Toronto
Recital: Gerald Finley – October 14, 1994 | Glenn Gould Studio, Toronto
Songs and song-cycles in English
date: October 14, 1994
This was the Toronto recital debut of the Canadian baritone who had previously performed with us in our Sunday Series in 1992 and at the Aldeburgh Festival in 1988 and whose career was shortly to take off into worldwide success, both in opera and in concert. His programme for us was entirely of songs in English, beginning with Purcell and continuing with Vaughan Williams’s great song-cycle. Warlock songs (with a few piano-duets) completed the first half. Derek Holman’s “The Centred Passion” was the highlight of the second half. The cycles by Vaughan Williams and Holman, together with Britten folksong arrangements, were subsequently recorded by the CBC for CD release.
| Song | Artist | Composer | Poet |
|---|---|---|---|
| An Evening Hymn | Finley, Gerald, baritone; Ralls, Stephen, piano | Purcell, Henry | Fuller, William |
| Thy genius, lo! (The Massacre of Paris) | Finley, Gerald, baritone; Ralls, Stephen, piano | Purcell, Henry | Lee, Nathaniel |
| I’ll sail upon the dog-star (A Fool’s Preferment) | Finley, Gerald, baritone; Ralls, Stephen, piano | Purcell, Henry, real. Britten, Benjamin | D’Urfey, Thomas |
| The Vagabond (Songs of Travel) | Finley, Gerald, baritone; Ralls, Stephen, piano | Vaughan Williams, Ralph | Stevenson, Robert Louis |
| Let Beauty awake (Songs of Travel) | Finley, Gerald, baritone; Ralls, Stephen, piano | Vaughan Williams, Ralph | Stevenson, Robert Louis |
| The Roadside Fire (Songs of Travel) | Finley, Gerald, baritone; Ralls, Stephen, piano | Vaughan Williams, Ralph | Stevenson, Robert Louis |
| Youth and Love (Songs of Travel) | Finley, Gerald, baritone; Ralls, Stephen, piano | Vaughan Williams, Ralph | Stevenson, Robert Louis |
| In dreams (Songs of Travel) | Finley, Gerald, baritone; Ralls, Stephen, piano | Vaughan Williams, Ralph | Stevenson, Robert Louis |
| The infinite shining heavens (Songs of Travel) | Finley, Gerald, baritone; Ralls, Stephen, piano | Vaughan Williams, Ralph | Stevenson, Robert Louis |
| Whither must I wander? (Songs of Travel) | Finley, Gerald, baritone; Ralls, Stephen, piano | Vaughan Williams, Ralph | Stevenson, Robert Louis |
| Bright is the ring of words (Songs of Travel) | Finley, Gerald, baritone; Ralls, Stephen, piano | Vaughan Williams, Ralph | Stevenson, Robert Louis |
| I have trod the upward and the downward slope (Songs of Travel) | Finley, Gerald, baritone; Ralls, Stephen, piano | Vaughan Williams, Ralph | Stevenson, Robert Louis |
| Basse-Danse (Capriol Suite) | Ralls, Stephen / Ubukata, Bruce, piano | Warlock, Peter | n/a |
| Pieds-en-l’air (Capriol Suite) | Ralls, Stephen / Ubukata, Bruce, piano | Warlock, Peter | n/a |
| Mattachins: Sword Dance (Capriol Suite) | Ralls, Stephen / Ubukata, Bruce, piano | Warlock, Peter | n/a |
| Yarmouth Fair | Finley, Gerald, baritone; Ubukata, Bruce, piano | Norfolk folksong, arr. Warlock, Peter | Collins, Hal |
| The Fox | Finley, Gerald, baritone; Ubukata, Bruce, piano | Warlock, Peter | Blunt, Bruce |
| My Own Country | Finley, Gerald, baritone; Ubukata, Bruce, piano | Warlock, Peter | Belloc, Hilaire |
| Jillian of Berry | Finley, Gerald, baritone; Ubukata, Bruce, piano | Warlock, Peter | anon. |
| Old yew, which graspest at the stones (The Centred Passion) | Finley, Gerald, baritone; Ralls, Stephen, piano | Holman, Derek | Tennyson, Alfred, Lord |
| Tonight the winds begin to rise (The Centred Passion) | Finley, Gerald, baritone; Ralls, Stephen, piano | Holman, Derek | Tennyson, Alfred, Lord |
| The path by which we twain did go (The Centred Passion) | Finley, Gerald, baritone; Ralls, Stephen, piano | Holman, Derek | Tennyson, Alfred, Lord |
| The time draws near the birth of Christ (The Centred Passion) | Finley, Gerald, baritone; Ralls, Stephen, piano | Holman, Derek | Tennyson, Alfred, Lord |
| Now fades the last, long streak of snow (The Centred Passion) | Finley, Gerald, baritone; Ralls, Stephen, piano | Holman, Derek | Tennyson, Alfred, Lord |
| Thy voice is on the rolling air (The Centred Passion) | Finley, Gerald, baritone; Ralls, Stephen, piano | Holman, Derek | Tennyson, Alfred, Lord |
| Zion’s Walls (Old American Songs) | Finley, Gerald, baritone; Ralls, Stephen, piano | Copland, Aaron | anon. |
| The Golden Willow Tree (Old American Songs) | Finley, Gerald, baritone; Ralls, Stephen, piano | Copland, Aaron | anon. |
| At the River (Old American Songs) | Finley, Gerald, baritone; Ralls, Stephen, piano | Copland, Aaron | Lowry, Robert |
| Ching-a-ring chaw (Old American Songs) | Finley, Gerald, baritone; Ralls, Stephen, piano | Copland, Aaron | anon. |
| The Desert – ENCORE | Finley, Gerald, baritone; Ralls, Stephen / Ubukata, Bruce, piano | Emanuel, Louis | Smith, John Frederick |
| The Salley Gardens – ENCORE | Finley, Gerald, baritone; Ralls, Stephen, piano | Irish folksong, arr. Britten, Benjamin | Yeats, William Butler |