Canadian bass-baritone Gerald Finley never fails to amaze the listener with his versatility, whether it’s in his signature role as Robert Oppenheimer in John Adams’ Dr Atomic or Golaud in Debussy’s Pelléas et Mélisande, or just as one of our finest lieder exponents.

And his long partnership with British pianist Julius Drake yields another landmark recording with this latest release for Hyperion which neatly pairs Schubert’s Schwanengesang with Brahms’ own swansong, Vier ernste Gesänge.

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