Gerald Finzi, Collection # 4 (rarities) & bonus [mp3]

Gerald Finzi
1901-1956

Mp3

For St. Cecilia. Op. 30
Ceremonial Ode

Interlude for Oboe and strings (only recording of this work accompanied by string orchestra)

Magnificat Op. 36 (only recording with full orchestra)

Let Us Garlands Bring: Five Shakespeare Songs Op. 18
1) Come away, Come away death
2) Who is Silvia?
3) Fear no more the heat of the sun
4) Oh mistress mine
5) It was a lover and his lass

Two Sonnets for Tenor & Orchestra
1) When I consider
2) How soon hath time

Farewell to Arms
1) Introduction
2) Aria

Text for St. Cecilia & Magnificat included as well as images.

https://mega.co.nz/#!58sGVIjb!Tw5mUnb_gncrv9GSX0jARCdD8yAvm231alD6qkP Qgtg

~3 collections~

Much can be said about the haunting music and short life of Gerald Finzi. He cultivated apples as well as young musicians & poets. He loved English literature and his library was vast. The music manifested from the words, he stated, not the other way around. He worked hard to resurrect forgotten composers and feared his little contribution, like himself, might be forgotten.

“His music is shot through with visionary gleams: in Dies Natalis, the sultry gold of ‘the corn was orient and immortal wheat’ or the bated breath of ‘everything was at rest, free and immortal’… Not loud or commanding, Finzi’s voice is lyrical, candid, and fastidious. No one else has quite his shades of shy rapture or melancholy, characteristic radiance.”

[Gerald Finzi: His Life & Music by Diana McVeagh]

Finzi #1

Gerald Finzi (1901-1956)

1) Eclogue for piano and strings
2) Love’s Labor’s Lost: Introduction
3) A Severn Rhapsody for strings
4) Introit for violin and small orchestra
5) Magnificat for chorus & organ

Dies Natalis for tenor & strings
Wilfred Brown and The English Chamber Orchestra conducted by Christopher Finzi
6) Intrada
7) Rhapsody
8) The Rapture
9) Wonder
10) The Salutation
11) Cello Concerto: 3rd movement

Finzi #2

Gerald Finzi (1901-1906)

1) Romance for string orchestra

Farewell To Arms for tenor & orchestra
2) Introduction
3) Aria

Requiem da Camera for baritone, chorus & orchestra
4) Prelude
5) Quasi senza misua
6) Con dignita
7) = about 66

8) The Fall of the Leaf: Elegy for orchestra
9) Prelude for string orchestra
10) Nocturne: New Year Music
11) Concerto for Clarinet: 2nd Movement

Rather than express regret for what this wonderful composer didn’t live to give us, or dig around to find pieces that he quite clearly thought were not fit to leave his workshop (in the case of the recently put-together Violin Concerto -his self-criticism was more than justified), let us celebrate him for what he did do.

Finzi # 3

Gerald Finzi (1901-1906)

Grand Fantasia and Toccata for piano & orchestra
1) Molto grave
2) Alleggro vigoroso

In Terra Pax
3) A frosty Christmas Eve
4) And lo, the Angel of the Lord came upon them

Three Solioquies from “Loves Labours Lost”
5) I The King’s poem
6) II Longaville’s Sonnet
7) III Dumaine’s Poem

8) Elegy for violin & piano

Five Bagatelles for clarinet & strings
9) I Prelude
10) II Romance
11) III Carol
12) IV Forlana
13) V Fughetta

Ode For Saint Cecilia
14) Delightful Goddess
15) Changed is the age
16) How came you, lady
17) How smiling
18) Wherefore we bid you to the full concent
Finzi collection

~Updated Link~

https://mega.co.nz/#!AoM2ybKQ!avGWvVZl4rYNCiTvycc1hUfH6D0nVlrmbJvMcof FE1s

His wife Joy arranged for him to listen to it played over the radio when he was in the hospital. He died the next morning.

And this post is one of the best in the Forum.
Thank you very much, my dear friend.

God is Gone Up
Welcome sweet Sacred Feast
Three Short Elegies
Thou Didst Delight My Eyes
My Lovely One
Let Us Praise Famous Men
Seven Part Songs
Magnificat
White-Flowering Days
All This Night
Lo, The Full Final Sacrifice

Includes booklet cover, the Finzi Memorial Window (commission by Joy Finzi) surrounded by the names of famous British composers…. And the text (and authors) engraved around the window’s very edge.

https://mega.co.nz/#!ksFQ0Krb!EFk07TZw-yquJl2ZCDyZui2AyVRD43mHxepj8xftRc4