The Best of Finzi

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Label
Naxos
Release Date
June 24, 2008
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      FINZI, GERALD
    • PERFORMER
      Various
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      June 24, 2008
    • UPC
      730099683623
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      8556836
    • LABEL
      Naxos
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Vocal
    Works ⌄

    1. Clarinet Concerto, Op. 31: I. Allegro vigoroso

      Composer: Gerald Finzi

      Ensemble: Northern Sinfonia

      Performer: Robert Plane

      Conductor: Howard Griffiths

    2. Let us garlands bring, Op. 18: No. 1. Come Away, Come Away, Death

      Composer: Gerald Finzi

      Performer: Roderick Williams, Iain Burnside

    3. 7 Unaccompanied Partsongs, Op. 17: No. 4. Clear and gentle stream

      Composer: Gerald Finzi

      Ensemble: Cambridge Choir of St. John's College

      Conductor: Christopher Robinson

    4. Prelude

      Composer: Gerald Finzi

      Ensemble: Royal Ballet Sinfonia

      Conductor: David Lloyd-Jones

    5. 3 Anthems, Op. 27: No. 2. God is gone up

      Composer: Gerald Finzi

      Ensemble: Cambridge Choir of St. John's College

      Performer: Christopher Whitton

      Conductor: Christopher Robinson

    6. The Fall of the Leaf, Op. 20

      Composer: Gerald Finzi

      Ensemble: Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: David Hill

    7. For St. Cecilia, Op. 30: Delightful Goddess, in whose fashionings

      Composer: Gerald Finzi

      Ensemble: Bournemouth Symphony Chorus, Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: David Hill

    8. Cello Concerto in A Minor, Op. 40: II. Andante quieto

      Composer: Gerald Finzi

      Ensemble: Northern Sinfonia

      Performer: Tim Hugh

      Conductor: Howard Griffiths

    9. Intimations of Immortality, Op. 29: Then sing, ye Birds, sing, sing a joyous song!

      Composer: Gerald Finzi

      Ensemble: Bournemouth Symphony Chorus, Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: David Hill

    10. A Young Man's Exhortation, Op. 14: No. 1. A Young Man's Exhortation

      Composer: Gerald Finzi

      Performer: John Mark Ainsley, Iain Burnside

    11. Dies natalis, Op. 8: I. Intrada

      Composer: Gerald Finzi

      Ensemble: Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: David Hill

    12. Earth and Air and Rain, Op. 15: No. 6. Rollicum-Rorum

      Composer: Gerald Finzi

      Performer: Roderick Williams, Iain Burnside

    13. Till Earth Outwears, Op. 19: No. 5. It never looks like summer here

      Composer: Gerald Finzi

      Performer: John Mark Ainsley, Iain Burnside

    14. Eclogue for Piano and Strings, Op. 10

      Composer: Gerald Finzi

      Ensemble: Northern Sinfonia

      Performer: Peter Donohoe

      Conductor: Howard Griffiths


Gerald Finzi made an important contribution to British twentieth-century song, choral and orchestral repertoire. His acute awareness of the frailty of existence found it's musical expression not only in his song settings, but in the Cello Concerto.