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Téléchargez La Version 50 disques à gagner / 50 CDs to win LaScena Le guide canadien de la musique classique Canada's Guide to Musicale Classical Music La Scène musicale • The Music Scene http://www.brenrose.com/~scena GRATUIT / FREE GRATUIT Vol. 3.7 - mai / May 1998 Gerald Finley Richard Caniell Abroad Immortal Performances Recorded Music Society Montréal • Québec Toronto Ottawa Winnipeg Denis Brott Le troisi•me Festival de musique de chambre de MontrŽal Third Montreal Chamber Music Festival Canada Post Publication Mail Sales Agreement No. 1225561 No. Agreement Sales Mail Publication Post Canada Envois de publication canadienne, Contrat de vente / vente de Contrat canadienne, publication de Envois La Scena Musicale - mai 1998 ¥ May 1998 - Vol. 3, No. 7 - Page 2 et instrumentale. Chaque numŽro contient un calendrier de concerts, de confŽrences, de films, dÕŽmissions ainsi que des critiques et des Sommaire / Contents articles. LSM est publiŽ par La Sc•ne Gerald Finley................................................................................3 musicale, une organisme ˆ but non-lucratif. La Scena Musicale is dedicated to the enjoy- Denis Brott ..............................................................................4, 5 Mai 1998 - May 1998 ¥ Vol. 3, no. 7 ment of classical music. It is published ten Richard Caniell ........................................................................6,7 times per year. Inside readers will find listings ƒditeur/Publisher La Sc•ne musicale, of live concerts, lectures, films, broadcasts as Disques du mois / Discs of the Month ......................................8 Directeurs: Wah Keung Chan (PrŽsident), well as articles and reviews. LSM is published Critiques / Concert Reviews ............................................9,21-23 Philip Anson(Vice-PrŽsident), Tom by La Sc•ne musicale, a registered non-profit Le calendrier / Calendar ......................................................10-17 Holzinger (TrŽsorier) organization. Le laryngologue / The Throat Doctor ......................................19 RŽdacteurs/Co-Editors Philip Anson, Wah Keung Chan Abonnements/Subscriptions: Questionnaire ............................................................................20 LÕabonnement postal (Canada) cožte 20$/an Editor, English Text Philip Anson (taxes incluses). S.V.P. envoyez votre nom, Les disques / CD reviews ........................................................24 Contributeurs/Contributors Rodrigue Audet, adresse, no. tŽlŽphone/tŽlŽcopieur et courrier Pierre Bellemare, Fran•oise P. Chagnon, Žlectronique. Tous les dons seront apprŽciŽs. 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This BY PHILIP ANSON sional debut in German. Soon after, Tom Graham of is achieved through modification and delay. But if IMG became Finley's agent and English mezzo you sing English the same way you learned to sing Louise Winter became his liebes Weibchen. French or Italian, people will have the feeling it Finley was honored to sing Figaro at the 1994 would have sounded better in French or Italian." opening of Glyndebourne's new opera house, but Finley doesn't have much affinity for modern Papageno became Finley's vehicle to international American song but he hopes to add compositions renown. In 1990 he did the Glyndebourne tour in by Canadians John Greer and Derek Holman to his Peter Sellar's controversial Flute and in 1995 John repertoire. Eliot Gardiner invited Finley to tour Europe in his Does Finley feel threatened by the new spate Flute (recorded on DG Archiv). It was in Amsterdam of excellent young German baritones such as during that tour that Metropolitan Opera artistic Holzmair, Goerne, and Quasthoff? "Not really. administrator Jonathan Friend heard Finley and There have always been many good German bari- offered him his Met debut. tones. I am not German but I have excellent As well as opera, lieder have been important German diction coaches. I have encountered resis- to Finley from the beginning of his career (he has tance to me as an anglophone singing German performed lieder recitals with Julius Drake, Malcolm roles. John Eliot Gardiner got several expert opin- Martineau, and Roger Vignolles). His recent CBC ions on my German diction from the Deutsche ontreal-born baritone Gerald Finley made disc Songs of Travel reveals a sensitive and experi- Grammophon people before I was asked to record a critically-praised Metropolitan Opera enced interpreter of art song. Finley loves lieder Papageno." M debut as Papageno in Mozart's Die because they are challenging and have unlimited The Mozart baritone roles continue to be Zauberflšte last February. La Scena Musicale talked potential for refinement. "Lieder require superb Finley's bread and butter. He has done Guglielmo, with Finley in New York between two Met perfor- technique, a huge resource of colour and depth of Papageno and Masetto Ñ Don Giovanni awaits. He mances. understanding. I learned so much from hearing enjoys Benjamin Britten and wants to sing Billy Gerald Finley received his formative musical Fischer-Dieskau, Prey and Schreier, who all had a Budd. He sang the Count and Olivier in Strauss' training in Ottawa, Ontario. Like singers Daniel marvellous span of color, dynamics and intensity. I Capriccio; he is keen on the Barber in Die Taylor, Kevin Reeves, and David Thompson, Finley began by singing Wolf's very characterful songs. I Schweigsame Frau and perhaps Jochanaan. He received his first introduction to choral music from sang my first Winterreise five years ago and I've dreams of singing Onegin, a perfect lyric middle Brian Law, choir director of St. Matthew's Church in done it a dozen times since then. I won't pretend to baritone role for him. Ottawa. After Finley's voice broke he continued to have mastered it yet. I regard it as a dramatic piece, Finley has appeared on several Deutsche sing in the Ontario Youth Choir, Ottawa Music and I am a dramatic performer. I'm not one to invest Grammophon recordings through his work with Festival, Ottawa Cantata Singers, Ottawa Choral Winterreise with delicate poetic inflections. My life John Eliot Gardiner. Future recording projects Society, and the NAC Opera Chorus, where he got experience is still na•ve and raw, and that's how I include Vaughan Williams' Pilgrim's Progress for his first taste of opera during the now-defunct sing it." Chandos, a shared disc (with Canadian tenor Festival Ottawa. Finley regards the recent spate of lieder Michael Schade) in Hyperion's Schubert series, and Though Finley intended to study science
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