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Finzi: Intimations Of Immortality, Etc / Hill, Et Al

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Composer
FINZI
Artist
Hill, Bournemouth So, Gilchrist
Format
CD
Label
Naxos
Released
May 16, 2006
Catalog #
8557863
UPC
747313286324

About

This disc represents an easy first choice in Finzi's Intimations of Immortality, one of the masterpieces of the English choral literature and a surprisingly neglected one too. Its only serious competition comes from Richard Hickox on EMI (if it's still in print) and Matthew Best on Hyperion (a very good version, if not quite as orchestrally polished as this). David Hill has one advantage over everyone: his is simply the most exciting performance available, not just a function of swift tempos, but also in terms of the acuity and enthusiasm of the instrumental response to the music's bold contrasts and driving climaxes.


With James Gilchrist, a very fine tenor soloist, singing with impressive clarity of diction and very little of that traditionally English, pinched tone quality, the overall picture only gets better. It may be that in his own Corydon Singers Best has a finer contingent of massed voices, but the Bournemouth choir certainly does as well as Hickox's Liverpool forces. The coupling is equally impressive: a resounding performance of the ebullient ceremonial ode For St. Cecilia (Hickox offers the Grand Fantasia and Toccata for piano and orchestra, Best the gentle cantata Dies Natalis). At Naxos' budget price, this is an easy call. Buy it! [7/24/2006]
--David Hurwitz, ClassicsToday.com

Tracklist 18 tracks

  1. 1 Andante sostenuto 04:43
    Track
    1
    Title
    Andante sostenuto
    Duration
    04:43
    Composer
    Gerald Finzi
    Ensemble
    Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra
    Conductor
    David Hill
  2. 2 There was a time when meadow, grove and stream 02:56
    Track
    2
    Title
    There was a time when meadow, grove and stream
    Duration
    02:56
    Composer
    Gerald Finzi
    Performer
    James Gilchrist
    Ensemble
    Bournemouth Symphony Chorus, Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra
    Conductor
    David Hill
  3. 3 The Rainbow comes and goes 02:04
    Track
    3
    Title
    The Rainbow comes and goes
    Duration
    02:04
    Composer
    Gerald Finzi
    Performer
    James Gilchrist
    Ensemble
    Bournemouth Symphony Chorus, Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra
    Conductor
    David Hill
  4. 4 Now, while the birds thus sing a joyous song 04:44
    Track
    4
    Title
    Now, while the birds thus sing a joyous song
    Duration
    04:44
    Composer
    Gerald Finzi
    Performer
    James Gilchrist
    Ensemble
    Bournemouth Symphony Chorus, Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra
    Conductor
    David Hill
  5. 5 Ye blessed Creatures, I have heard the call 00:58
    Track
    5
    Title
    Ye blessed Creatures, I have heard the call
    Duration
    00:58
    Composer
    Gerald Finzi
    Performer
    James Gilchrist
    Ensemble
    Bournemouth Symphony Chorus, Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra
    Conductor
    David Hill
  6. 6 Oh evil day! If I were sullen 02:14
    Track
    6
    Title
    Oh evil day! If I were sullen
    Duration
    02:14
    Composer
    Gerald Finzi
    Performer
    James Gilchrist
    Ensemble
    Bournemouth Symphony Chorus, Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra
    Conductor
    David Hill
  7. 7 But there's a Tree, of many, one 01:51
    Track
    7
    Title
    But there's a Tree, of many, one
    Duration
    01:51
    Composer
    Gerald Finzi
    Performer
    James Gilchrist
    Ensemble
    Bournemouth Symphony Chorus, Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra
    Conductor
    David Hill
  8. 8 Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting 03:05
    Track
    8
    Title
    Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting
    Duration
    03:05
    Composer
    Gerald Finzi
    Performer
    James Gilchrist
    Ensemble
    Bournemouth Symphony Chorus, Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra
    Conductor
    David Hill
  9. 9 Earth fills her lap with pleasures of her own 01:52
    Track
    9
    Title
    Earth fills her lap with pleasures of her own
    Duration
    01:52
    Composer
    Gerald Finzi
    Performer
    James Gilchrist
    Ensemble
    Bournemouth Symphony Chorus, Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra
    Conductor
    David Hill
  10. 10 Oh joy! That in our embers 02:49
    Track
    10
    Title
    Oh joy! That in our embers
    Duration
    02:49
    Composer
    Gerald Finzi
    Performer
    James Gilchrist
    Ensemble
    Bournemouth Symphony Chorus, Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra
    Conductor
    David Hill
  11. 11 But for those first affections 03:52
    Track
    11
    Title
    But for those first affections
    Duration
    03:52
    Composer
    Gerald Finzi
    Performer
    James Gilchrist
    Ensemble
    Bournemouth Symphony Chorus, Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra
    Conductor
    David Hill
  12. 12 Then sing, ye Birds, sing, sing a joyous song! 03:21
    Track
    12
    Title
    Then sing, ye Birds, sing, sing a joyous song!
    Duration
    03:21
    Composer
    Gerald Finzi
    Performer
    James Gilchrist
    Ensemble
    Bournemouth Symphony Chorus, Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra
    Conductor
    David Hill
  13. 13 And O, ye Fountains, Meadows, Hills and Groves 04:29
    Track
    13
    Title
    And O, ye Fountains, Meadows, Hills and Groves
    Duration
    04:29
    Composer
    Gerald Finzi
    Performer
    James Gilchrist
    Ensemble
    Bournemouth Symphony Chorus, Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra
    Conductor
    David Hill
  14. 14 Delightful Goddess, in whose fashionings 02:31
    Track
    14
    Title
    Delightful Goddess, in whose fashionings
    Duration
    02:31
    Composer
    Gerald Finzi
    Performer
    James Gilchrist
    Ensemble
    Bournemouth Symphony Chorus, Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra
    Conductor
    David Hill
  15. 15 Changed is the age; mysterious, man's next star 03:18
    Track
    15
    Title
    Changed is the age; mysterious, man's next star
    Duration
    03:18
    Composer
    Gerald Finzi
    Performer
    James Gilchrist
    Ensemble
    Bournemouth Symphony Chorus, Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra
    Conductor
    David Hill
  16. 16 How came you, lady of fierce martyrdom 04:43
    Track
    16
    Title
    How came you, lady of fierce martyrdom
    Duration
    04:43
    Composer
    Gerald Finzi
    Performer
    James Gilchrist
    Ensemble
    Bournemouth Symphony Chorus, Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra
    Conductor
    David Hill
  17. 17 How smilingly the saint among her friends 02:13
    Track
    17
    Title
    How smilingly the saint among her friends
    Duration
    02:13
    Composer
    Gerald Finzi
    Performer
    James Gilchrist
    Ensemble
    Bournemouth Symphony Chorus, Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra
    Conductor
    David Hill
  18. 18 Wherefore we bid you to the full concent 03:51
    Track
    18
    Title
    Wherefore we bid you to the full concent
    Duration
    03:51
    Composer
    Gerald Finzi
    Performer
    James Gilchrist
    Ensemble
    Bournemouth Symphony Chorus, Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra
    Conductor
    David Hill