Gerald Finley’s debut-album on Ondine is devoted to the music Dmitri Shostakovich. It includes premiere recordings of orchestral versions of wartime works Six Romances on Verses by English Poets and the Scottish Ballad. The Six Romances was previously known only as a version for chamber orchestra arranged by the composer. However, the composer’s original version for full orchestra was just recently discovered and is included here as a premiere recording. Also included is a premiere recording of a very late Shostakovich masterpiece: the orchestral version of Suite on Poems by Michelangelo, sung for the first time in the original Italian.