Linda Finnie
Scottish mezzo soprano Linda Finnie has experienced a wide-ranging career, built upon both opera performance and concert work. Her full, ripe, if not especially large, instrument proved well-suited to a broad repertory. A long-standing exclusive recital and oratorio artist for Chandos Records, she has recorded numerous oratorios and song recitals. Under the leadership of conductor Daniel Barenboim, she made notable contributions to the Bayreuth Festival Ring cycle of the late '80s, a production subsequently released on commercial recording.
Following studies at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama where she earned each of the school's performance awards, Finnie won the Kathleen Ferrier Memorial Award in 1974. In 1977, she gained international attention by capturing the Kathleen Ferrier Prize at s'Hertogenbosch. Not long thereafter, Finnie had made debuts with most of the major opera companies in the British Isles, among them Covent Garden and the English National Opera. Abroad, she sang first with the Frankfurt Oper, making her debut as Amneris. In Nice, she sang Waltraute in Die Götterdämmerung, establishing her suitability for the Wagnerian repertory. In 1988, she made her first appearance at Bayreuth, singing Fricka, Siegrune, and the Second Norn in the theater's new Ring cycle.
Meanwhile, Finnie's British appearances had expanded to include the famous Proms, where in 1986 she was the alto soloist in Mahler's Symphony No. 8 "Symphony of a Thousand." America heard her that same season when she appeared as a soloist in Verdi's Manzoni Requiem with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. Other prominent orchestras figured in her engagement book, including the Pittsburgh and San Francisco Symphony Orchestras, the London Symphony Orchestra, the Philharmonia, the BBC Symphony, the Scottish National Orchestra, and the Orchestre National de Radio France. In opera, return engagements at Bayreuth and Frankfort were supplemented by appearances at London's Royal Opera and English National Opera and with the Niewe Nederlandse Opera.
Finnie became active in the recording studio early in her career, participating in Kurt Sanderling's recording of Beethoven's "Choral" Symphony in 1981. Since then, a substantial discography has amassed, including Gluck's Armide in 1983, Prokofiev's Alexander Nevsky in 1988, Mendelssohn's Elijah with Richard Hickox in 1989, and in the 1990s, such works as Mahler's Kindertotenlieder and Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen and Elgar's Sea Pictures and Music Makers. Several commendable song recitals were also recorded for Chandos.
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Prokofiev: Alexander Nevsky, Scythian Suite & Le Pas d'acier
Neeme Järvi, The Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Linda Finnie
Cantates (profanes) - Paru chez Chandos le 1 août 2008
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Respighi: Three Botticelli Pictures
Tamás Vásáry, Bournemouth Sinfonietta, Linda Finnie, Raphael Wallfisch
Symphonies - Paru chez Chandos le 1 avr. 1991
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Chausson: Poème de l'amour et de la mer, Poème for Violin & Orchestra - Faure: Pelléas er Mélisande Suite & Pavane
Yan Pascal Tortelier, Ulster Orchestra, Linda Finnie, Renaissance Singers
Symphonies - Paru chez Chandos le 1 août 1991
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Bliss: A Colour Symphony, Cello Concerto, the Enchantress
Ulster Orchestra, Linda Finnie, Raphael Wallfisch, Vernon Handley
Musique symphonique - Paru chez Chandos le 1 août 1991
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Korngold: Lieder des Abschieds & Symphony in F-Sharp Major
Sir Edward Downes, BBC Philharmonic Orchestra, Linda Finnie
Symphonies - Paru chez Chandos le 1 mai 1993
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Mahler: Kindertotenlieder & Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen - R. Strauss: Notturno
Linda Finnie, The Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Edwin Paling, Neeme Järvi
Musique vocale (profane et sacrée) - Paru chez Chandos le 1 mars 1997
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Linda Finnie sings Schumann & Brahms Lieder
Linda Finnie, John Harrington, Anthony Legge
Mélodies & Lieder - Paru chez Chandos le 1 mars 1990
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Ravel: Ouverture de Féérie & Trois Poèmes - Debussy: Nocturnes
Yan Pascal Tortelier, Ulster Orchestra, Linda Finnie, Grosvenor High School Choir, Renaissance Singers
Symphonies - Paru chez Chandos le 1 oct. 1990
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Korngold: Symphony in F-Sharp Major & Abschieslieder
Sir Edward Downes, BBC Philharmonic Orchestra, Linda Finnie
Symphonies - Paru chez Chandos le 1 mai 1993
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Strauss: Der Rosenkavalier, Waltz Sequences 1, 2 & Notturno
The Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Linda Finnie, Neeme Järvi, Edwin Paling
Classique - Paru chez Chandos le 1 juin 1990
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Prokofiev: Alexander Nevsky & Scythian Suite
Neeme Järvi, The Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Linda Finnie
Cantates (profanes) - Paru chez Chandos le 1 janv. 1988
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Poèmes - Pélléas et Mélisande & Pavane
Linda Finnie, Renaissance Singers, Ulster Orchestra, Yan Pascal Tortelier
Musique vocale (profane et sacrée) - Paru chez Chandos le 1 août 1991
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Alexandre Nevski - Suite Scythe
Linda Finnie, The Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Neeme Järvi
Classique - Paru chez Chandos le 1 janv. 1988
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Diepenbrock: Orchestral Works and Symphonic Songs
Hans Vonk, Residentie Orchestra The Hague, Linda Finnie, Christoph Homberger, Robert Holl, Emmy Verhey
Symphonies - Paru chez Chandos le 1 oct. 2002
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KORNGOLD: Lieder des Abschieds / Symphony in F sharp major
Linda Finnie, BBC Philharmonic Orchestra, Sir Edward Downes
Mélodies & Lieder - Paru chez Chandos le 1 janv. 1993
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Ivan le Terrible
Linda Finnie, Nikita Storojev, Philharmonia Chorus, Philharmonia Orchestra, Neeme Järvi
Musique vocale (profane et sacrée) - Paru chez Chandos le 1 juin 1991
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Serge Prokofiev
The Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Linda Finnie, Neeme Järvi
Cantates (profanes) - Paru chez Chandos le 26 août 2008
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Ravel: Orchestral Works, Vol. 3
Yan Pascal Tortelier, Ulster Orchestra, Linda Finnie, Rachel Masters, Grosvenor High School Choir, Renaissance Singers
Symphonies - Paru chez Chandos le 1 août 1993
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Mahler: Kindertotenlieder, Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen - Strauss: Notturno
Neeme Järvi, The Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Linda Finnie, Edwin Paling
Mélodies & Lieder - Paru chez Chandos le 1 mars 1997
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Songs of the British Isles in Tribute to Kathleen Ferrier
Classique - Paru chez Chandos le 1 nov. 1989
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Mahler: Symphony No. 4 & Leider eines fahrenden Gesellen
Neeme Järvi, The Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Linda Finnie
Symphonies - Paru chez Chandos le 1 sept. 1991
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