Brindley Sherratt, Julius Drake - Fear No More (2024) [Hi-Res]

Tracklist

01. Fahrt zum Hades, D. 526
02. Der Schiffer, D. 536
03. 3 Gesänge, D. 902: No. 1, L’incanto degli occhi
04. Auf der Donau, D. 553
05. Der Tod und das Mädchen, D. 531
06. 6 Lieder, Op. 56: No. 3, Im Spätboot
07. Songs and Dances of Death: No. 1, Lullaby
08. Songs and Dances of Death: No. 2, Serenade
09. Songs and Dances of Death: No. 3, Trepak (Russian Dance)
10. Songs and Dances of Death: No. 4, Commander-in-Chief
11. Sea Fever
12. Let Us Garlands Bring, Op. 18: No. 3, Fear no more the heat o' the sun
13. By a Bierside
14. 6 Sea Songs: No. 2, Limehouse Reach
15. Captain Stratton's Fancy

Brindley Sherratt’s pre-eminence as an operatic bass is the result of two daring career shifts. Initially trained as a trumpeter, he gave up his first instrument as a student to become a singer. Yet even then, it was only in his mid-thirties that he left the professional security of a position in the BBC Singers to explore the world of opera.

Now, the voyage of discovery continues as Sherratt turns to the intimate medium of the song recital. With the superb pianist Julius Drake as collaborator, in Fear No More Sherratt draws on all of his accumulated technical and expressive wisdom to traverse death-haunted songs by Schubert, Mussorgsky and Richard Strauss before arriving at a final group of five twentieth-century English songs in which consolation and acceptance are the keynotes.

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