US TARIFFS UPDATE | August 2025 | No impact expected on your Presto orders | Read full details
Special offer. Fear No More
Brindley Sherratt (bass), Julius Drake (piano)
Awards:
-
Gramophone Awards, 2024 Shortlist, Shortlisted - Song
-
Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalists 2024
Sherratt possesses that rare gift – a genuine bass voice that carries its lyrical, expressive clarity from its ringing high notes right down to a full-toned basso profundo delivered without...
Special offer. Fear No More
Brindley Sherratt (bass), Julius Drake (piano)
Purchase product
Awards:
-
Gramophone Awards, 2024 Shortlist, Shortlisted - Song
-
Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalists 2024
Sherratt possesses that rare gift – a genuine bass voice that carries its lyrical, expressive clarity from its ringing high notes right down to a full-toned basso profundo delivered without...
About
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.
Contents and tracklist
Spotlight on this release
-
An error occurred.
Try watching this video on www.youtube.com, or enable JavaScript if it is disabled in your browser.
-
Brindley Sherratt on Fear No More
25th Apr 2024
Ahead of the release of his debut solo recording (due out on Delphian tomorrow), the veteran British bass discusses his 'upside-down' singing career, overcoming his anxieties about song-recitals, and being told to give up the trumpet by Janet Baker...
Awards and reviews
-
Presto Recordings of the YearFinalists 2024
June 2024
Sherratt possesses that rare gift – a genuine bass voice that carries its lyrical, expressive clarity from its ringing high notes right down to a full-toned basso profundo delivered without a trace of muddiness..This is a true partnership of two experienced musicians at the peak of their powers.
9th May 2024
The highly rewarding result captures his drinkably deep bass voice at its peak. Teamed with the pianist Julius Drake, he offers a programme exploring themes of fear and death, with a final affirmative twist...Sherratt’s final two numbers, both old-sea-dog songs, brim with warmth and acceptance.
