Robert Plane, Tim Hugh, Roderick Williams, Iain Burnside, James Gilchrist, John Mark Ainsley - A Finzi Anthology [8CD] (2016)

Tracklist

CD1
01. Clarinet Concerto in C Minor, Op. 31: I. Allegro vigoroso
02. Clarinet Concerto in C Minor, Op. 31: II. Adagio, ma senza rigore
03. Clarinet Concerto in C Minor, Op. 31: III. Rondo. Allegro giocoso
04. 5 Bagatelles, Op. 23a (Arr. L. Ashmore for Clarinet & Strings): No. 1, Prelude. Allegro deciso
05. 5 Bagatelles, Op. 23a (Arr. L. Ashmore for Clarinet & Strings): No. 2, Romance. Andante tranquillo
06. 5 Bagatelles, Op. 23a (Arr. L. Ashmore for Clarinet & Strings): No. 3, Carol. Andante semplice
07. 5 Bagatelles, Op. 23a (Arr. L. Ashmore for Clarinet & Strings): No. 4, Forlana. Allegretto grazioso
08. 5 Bagatelles, Op. 23a (Arr. L. Ashmore for Clarinet & Strings): No. 5, Fughetta. Allegro vivace
09. Love's Labour's Lost Suite, Op. 28a: VII. Soliloquy No. 1, The King's Poem
10. Love's Labour's Lost Suite, Op. 28a: VIII. Soliloquy No. 2, Longaville's Sonnet
11. Love's Labour's Lost Suite, Op. 28a: IX. Soliloquy No. 3, Dumaine's Poem
12. A Severn Rhapsody, Op. 3
13. Romance in E-Flat Major, Op. 11
14. Introit in F Major, Op. 6

CD2
01. Cello Concerto in A Minor, Op. 40: I. Allegro moderato
02. Cello Concerto in A Minor, Op. 40: II. Andante quieto
03. Cello Concerto in A Minor, Op. 40: III. Rondo. Adagio-Allegro giocoso
04. Eclogue, Op. 10
05. Grand Fantasia & Toccata, Op. 38

CD3
01. 3 Anthems, Op. 27: No. 2, God Is Gone Up
02. Magnificat, Op. 36
03. 3 Anthems, Op. 27: No. 1, My Lovely One
04. 3 Anthems, Op. 27: No. 3, Welcome Sweet and Sacred Feast
05. Thou Didst Delight My Eyes, Op. 32
06. Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, Op. 35
07. 7 Partsongs, Op. 17: No. 1, I Praise the Tender Flower
08. 7 Partsongs, Op. 17: No. 2, I Have Loved Flowers That Fade
09. 7 Partsongs, Op. 17: No. 3, My Spirit Sang All Day
10. 7 Partsongs, Op. 17: No. 4, Clear and Gentle Stream
11. 7 Partsongs, Op. 17: No. 5, Nightingales
12. 7 Partsongs, Op. 17: No. 6, Haste On, My Joys!
13. 7 Partsongs, Op. 17: No. 7, Wherefore Tonight So Full of Care
14. Lo, the Full, Final Sacrifice, Op. 26

CD4
01. I Said to Love, Op. 19b: No. 1, I Need Not Go
02. I Said to Love, Op. 19b: No. 2, At Middle-Field Gate in February
03. I Said to Love, Op. 19b: No. 3, Two Lips
04. I Said to Love, Op. 19b: No. 4, In Five-Score Summers
05. I Said to Love, Op. 19b: No. 5, For Life I Had Never Cared Greatly
06. I Said to Love, Op. 19b: No. 6, I Said to Love
07. Let Us Garlands Bring, Op. 18: No. 1, Come Away, Come Away, Death
08. Let Us Garlands Bring, Op. 18: No. 2, Who Is Silvia?
09. Let Us Garlands Bring, Op. 18: No. 3, Fear No More the Heat o' the Sun
10. Let Us Garlands Bring, Op. 18: No. 4, O Mistress Mine
11. Let Us Garlands Bring, Op. 18: No. 5, It Was a Lover and His Lass
12. Before and After Summer, Op. 16: No. 1, Childhood Among the Ferns
13. Before and After Summer, Op. 16: No. 2, Before and After Summer
14. Before and After Summer, Op. 16: No. 3, The Self-Unseeing
15. Before and After Summer, Op. 16: No. 4, Overlooking the River
16. Before and After Summer, Op. 16: No. 5, Channel Firing
17. Before and After Summer, Op. 16: No. 6, In the Mind's Eye
18. Before and After Summer, Op. 16: No. 7, The Too Short Time
19. Before and After Summer, Op. 16: No. 8, Epeisodia
20. Before and After Summer, Op. 16: No. 9, Amabel
21. Before and After Summer, Op. 16: No. 10, He Abjures Love

CD5
01. Intimations of Immortality, Op. 29: Prelude
02. Intimations of Immortality, Op. 29: There Was a Time When Meadow, Grove and Stream
03. Intimations of Immortality, Op. 29: The Rainbow Comes and Goes
04. Intimations of Immortality, Op. 29: Now, While the Birds Thus Sing a Joyous Song
05. Intimations of Immortality, Op. 29: Ye Blessed Creatures, I Have Heard the Call
06. Intimations of Immortality, Op. 29: Oh Evil Day! If I Were Sullen
07. Intimations of Immortality, Op. 29: But There's a Tree, of Many, One
08. Intimations of Immortality, Op. 29: Our Birth Is But a Sleep and a Forgetting
09. Intimations of Immortality, Op. 29: Earth Fills Her Lap with Pleasures of Her Own
10. Intimations of Immortality, Op. 29: Oh Joy! That in Our Embers
11. Intimations of Immortality, Op. 29: But for Those First Affections
12. Intimations of Immortality, Op. 29: Then Sing, Ye Birds, Sing, Sing a Joyous Song!
13. Intimations of Immortality, Op. 29: And O, Ye Fountains, Meadows, Hills and Groves
14. For St. Cecilia, Op. 30: Delightful Goddess, in Whose Fashionings
15. For St. Cecilia, Op. 30: Changed Is the Age; Mysterious, Man's Next Star
16. For St. Cecilia, Op. 30: How Came You, Lady of Fierce Martyrdom
17. For St. Cecilia, Op. 30: How Smilingly the Saint Among Her Friends
18. For St. Cecilia, Op. 30: Wherefore We Bid You to the Full Concent

CD6
01. Earth and Air and Rain, Op. 15: No. 1, Summer Schemes
02. Earth and Air and Rain, Op. 15: No. 2, When I Set Out for Lyonesse
03. Earth and Air and Rain, Op. 15: No. 3, Waiting Both
04. Earth and Air and Rain, Op. 15: No. 4, The Phantom
05. Earth and Air and Rain, Op. 15: No. 5, So I Have Fared
06. Earth and Air and Rain, Op. 15: No. 6, Rollicum-Rorum
07. Earth and Air and Rain, Op. 15: No. 7, To Lizbie Browne
08. Earth and Air and Rain, Op. 15: No. 8, The Clock of the Years
09. Earth and Air and Rain, Op. 15: No. 9, In a Churchyard
10. Earth and Air and Rain, Op. 15: No. 10, Proud Songsters
11. To a Poet, Op. 13a: No. 1, To a Poet a Thousand Years Hence
12. To a Poet, Op. 13a: No. 2, On Parent Knees
13. To a Poet, Op. 13a: No. 3, Intrada
14. To a Poet, Op. 13a: No. 4, The Birthnight
15. To a Poet, Op. 13a: No. 5, June on Castle Hill
16. To a Poet, Op. 13a: No. 6, Ode on the Rejection of St. Cecilia
17. By Footpath and Stile, Op. 2: No. 1, Paying Calls
18. By Footpath and Stile, Op. 2: No. 2, Where the Picnic Was
19. By Footpath and Stile, Op. 2: No. 3, The Oxen
20. By Footpath and Stile, Op. 2: No. 4, The Master and the Leaves
21. By Footpath and Stile, Op. 2: No. 5, Voices from Things Growing in a Churchyard
22. By Footpath and Stile, Op. 2: No. 6, Exeunt Omnes

CD7
01. A Young Man's Exhortation, Op. 14, Pt. 1: No. 1, A Young Man's Exhortation
02. A Young Man's Exhortation, Op. 14, Pt. 1: No. 2, Ditty
03. A Young Man's Exhortation, Op. 14, Pt. 1: No. 3, Budmouth Dears
04. A Young Man's Exhortation, Op. 14, Pt. 1: No. 4, Her Temple
05. A Young Man's Exhortation, Op. 14, Pt. 1: No. 5, The Comet at Yell'ham
06. A Young Man's Exhortation, Op. 14, Pt. 2: No. 6, Shortening Days
07. A Young Man's Exhortation, Op. 14, Pt. 2: No. 7, The Sigh
08. A Young Man's Exhortation, Op. 14, Pt. 2: No. 8, Former Beauties
09. A Young Man's Exhortation, Op. 14, Pt. 2: No. 9, Transformations
10. A Young Man's Exhortation, Op. 14, Pt. 2: No. 10, The Dance Continued
11. Till Earth Outwears, Op. 19a: No. 1, Let Me Enjoy the Earth
12. Till Earth Outwears, Op. 19a: No. 2, In Years Defaced
13. Till Earth Outwears, Op. 19a: No. 3, The Market-Girl
14. Till Earth Outwears, Op. 19a: No. 4, I Look into My Glass
15. Till Earth Outwears, Op. 19a: No. 5, It Never Looks Like Summer Here
16. Till Earth Outwears, Op. 19a: No. 6, At a Lunar Eclipse
17. Till Earth Outwears, Op. 19a: No. 7, Life Laughs Onwards
18. Oh Fair to See, Op. 13b: No. 1, I Say "I'll Seek Her Side"
19. Oh Fair to See, Op. 13b: No. 2, Oh Fair to See
20. Oh Fair to See, Op. 13b: No. 3, As I Lay in the Early Sun
21. Oh Fair to See, Op. 13b: No. 4, Only the Wanderer
22. Oh Fair to See, Op. 13b: No. 5, To Joy
23. Oh Fair to See, Op. 13b: No. 6, Harvest
24. Oh Fair to See, Op. 13b: No. 7, Since We Loved

CD8
01. Dies Natalis, Op. 8: I. Intrada
02. Dies Natalis, Op. 8: II. Rhapsody
03. Dies Natalis, Op. 8: III. The Rapture
04. Dies Natalis, Op. 8: IV. Wonder
05. Dies Natalis, Op. 8: V. The Salutation
06. Prelude in F Minor, Op. 25
07. Elegy, Op. 20 "The Fall of the Leaf"
08. 2 Sonnets, Op. 12: No. 1, When I Consider
09. 2 Sonnets, Op. 12: No. 2, How Soon Hath Time
10. Nocturne, Op. 7 "New Year Music"
11. Farewell to Arms, Op. 9: I. Introduction
12. Farewell to Arms, Op. 9: II. Aria



More than any other composer, Gerald Finzi (1901–1956) has come to embody the lyrical pastoralism so associated with English twentieth-century music. This anthology includes eight critically acclaimed recordings of Finzi’s works. The themes of fragility and transient existence are expressed in three early song anthologies with words by Thomas Hardy, Finzi’s favourite poet. Intimations of Immortality is a deeply touching lament for the passing of the freshness of childhood, while the tender Dies Natalis is a setting of texts by the 17th-century poet Thomas Traherne. Lo, the Full, Final Sacrifice takes the listener through a feast of moods and textures and ends with one of the most sublime Amens in all choral music. Finzi’s enchanting Clarinet Concerto was completed in 1949 in response to a commission from the Three Choirs Festival, and the Cello Concerto, with its elegiac slow movement, was composed when Finzi learned that he was suffering from an incurable illness and is one of his finest works.

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