John Carol Case, Robert Tear, Neil Jenkins, Howard Ferguson - Finzi: Before and after Summer, Till Earth Outwears, I said to Love (2007)

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Artist: John Carol Case, Robert Tear, Neil Jenkins, Howard Ferguson
Title: Finzi: Before and after Summer, Till Earth Outwears, I said to Love
Year Of Release: 2007
Label: Lyrita
Genre: Classical
Quality: FLAC (tracks)
Total Time: 01:58:53
Total Size: 478 Mb
WebSite: Album Preview

Tracklist:

CD 1
Before and after Summer, Op. 16 (Gerald Finzi)
01. No. 1, childhood among the ferns - 00:03:28
02. No. 2, before and after summer - 00:02:36
03. No. 3, the self-unseeing - 00:02:16
04. No. 4, overlooking the river - 00:03:07
05. No. 5, channel firing - 00:06:53
06. No. 6, in the mind's eye - 00:01:48
07. No. 7, the too short time - 00:02:48
08. No. 8, epeisodia - 00:02:11
09. No. 9, amabel - 00:02:21
10. No. 10, he abjures love - 00:04:57

Till Earth Outwears, Op. 19a (Gerald Finzi)
11. No. 1, let me enjoy the earth - 00:02:17
12. No. 2, in years defaced - 00:03:31
13. No. 3, the market girl - 00:02:04
14. No. 4, i look into my glass - 00:01:58
15. No. 5, it never looks like summer here - 00:01:08
16. No. 6, at a lunar eclipse - 00:03:25
17. No. 7, life laughs onwards - 00:02:17

I Said to Love, Op. 19b (Gerald Finzi)
18. No. 1, i need not go - 00:02:00
19. No. 2, at middle-field gate in february - 00:03:26
20. No. 3, two lips - 00:00:54
21. No. 4, in five-score summers (meditation) - 00:01:49
22. No. 5, for life i had never cared greatly - 00:02:14
23. No. 6, i said to love - 00:03:03

CD 2
A Young Man's Exhortation, Op. 14 (Gerald Finzi)
01. No. 1, a young man's exhortation - 00:03:15
02. No. 2, ditty - 00:02:50
03. No. 3, budmouth dears - 00:01:42
04. No. 4, her temple - 00:01:53
05. No. 5, the comet at yell'ham - 00:03:04
06. No. 6, shortening days - 00:02:23
07. No. 7, the sigh - 00:03:11
08. No. 8, former beauties - 00:03:03
09. No. 9, transformations - 00:01:32
10. No. 10, the dance continued - 00:03:34

Earth and Air and Rain, Op. 15 (Gerald Finzi)
11. No. 1, summer schemes - 00:02:32
12. No. 2, when i set out for lyonesse - 00:01:58
13. No. 3, waiting both - 00:02:52
14. No. 4, the phantom - 00:03:31
15. No. 5, so i have fared - 00:02:30
16. No. 6, rollicum-rorum - 00:01:42
17. No. 7, to lizbie browne - 00:04:16
18. No. 8, the clock of the years - 00:03:58
19. No. 9, in a churchyard - 00:03:26
20. No. 10, proud songsters - 00:03:10

Performers:
John Carol Case (baritone)
Robert Tear (tenor)
Neil Jenkins (tenor)
Howard Ferguson (piano)

If you know the great orchestral works of English modernist composer Gerald Finzi -- his cello and clarinet concertos, his Eclogue, and Grand Fantasia & Toccata for piano and orchestra -- you don't know the half of Finzi. And even if you know his great setting of Wordsworth's "Intimations of Immortality" for tenor, chorus, and orchestra, you still don't know the best of Finzi. For the best of Finzi, try this two-disc set of his five-song cycle to poems by Thomas Hardy. Like Schubert with Müller, Finzi had a particular affinity for Hardy and his special brand of pantheistic pastoral pessimism and his settings have a depth of understanding and an authenticity of utterance that make them especially effective and affecting. In these 1968 and 1971 recordings of Before & After Summer, Till Earth Outwears, I said to Love, A young Man's Exhortation, and Earth and Air and Rain, Finzi's aching melodies, longing harmonies, strong rhythms, and apt text settings show the composer to be a true blood brother of Hardy. In these determined, dedicated but not always as polished as they might be performances by tenor Neil Jenkins and baritone John Carol Case accompanied by able pianist Howard Ferguson, Finzi's Hardy cycles are given fully convincing interpretations that will please his fans and possibly persuade those who don't already know his music. Lyrita's stereo sound is clear and detailed.

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