On this evidence, Montreal-born (and now Sussex-based) Gerald Finley is a baritone of exceptional gifts. Here is a most moving account of VW’s Songs of Travel, intensely thoughtful, consistently sweet-toned and illuminating. The eight Britten folk-song settings come off no less alluringly, and Derek Holman (b.1931) could not have wished for a more convincing realization of his powerful 1986 Tennyson-cycle, The Centered Passion. Throughout, Stephen Ralls tenders exemplary support, while the recording is glowingly realistic to match.'