Ives, C - Weil' auf mir

The Canadian baritone Gerald Finley has a voice of great beauty, but it's always under the control of his penetrating intelligence: he risks bending pitches for expressive effect, and he adapts... — BBC Music Magazine, September 2005, 5 out of 5 stars More…

Tackling the huge Ives songbook alphabetically gives us welcome variety. Anyone seriously interested in Ives warts-and-all will want to be on board for this series. — Gramophone Magazine, October 2008 More…

Creative decisions have been taken about where to place Ives's songs in relation to each other, this new concept designed to illuminate our understanding of the time and place that begat them...both... — Gramophone Magazine, May 2013 More…

..this is a mixed bag replete with interest; the singers are capably served by an army of pianists; and the series is a genuine landmark in presenting Ives whole like this for the first time. — Gramophone Magazine, March 2009 More…

Ives's songs, given the jazz treatment for the first time, thrive in this idiom. I didn't know what to expect, but it works. The vocal approach is sympathetic; the harmony is respected, at... — Gramophone Magazine, April 2009 More…

Thirty-two discs are devoted to Schubert and 12 apiece to Wolf, Brahms and Schumann. That still leaves many others, each a witness to his specially penetrating delivery of the words...The recordings... — The Times, 7th December 2022, 4 out of 5 stars More…