Excellent review for Julius and Gerald Finley’s new recording on Hyperion:
‘Finley makes the music compellingly his own: with his Rolls-Royce bass-baritone on smooth, luxurious form throughout, there’s no sense of him trying to capture the youthfulness of the Miller boy – he leaves that, rather, to the tenors and lighter-voiced baritones.
Nor does he throw himself overtly into the drama; that he leaves, in many ways, to Drake, whose superbly played piano accompaniments bristle with life and detail, making a virtue of the lower keys to convey extra dramatic weight.’
Hugo Shirley Gramophone August 2022
Read the full review at the link below:
https://www.gramophone.co.uk/review/schubert-die-sch-ne-m-llerin-gerald-finley