On a new Ondine CD, Finley sings Shostakovich's Six Romances on Verses by English Poets, in English, and the Suite on Poems by Michelangelo, in Italian. Thomas Sanderling conducts the Helsinki Philharmonic; for the English cycle, he uses the composer's full orchestration, which is aglow with dark color. Here is the great Sonnet LXVI.
Addendum: Ondine describes this as the "world première recording" of the full-orchestral version of the Six Romances, but, as Laurel Fay pointed out to me, Gennady Rozhdestvensky and Anatoli Safiulin recorded it back in 1986.
