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Special offer. A Finzi Anthology

Robert Plane (clarinet), Tim Hugh (cello), Roderick Williams (baritone), Iain Burnside (piano), James Gilchrist (tenor), John Mark Ainsley (tenor)

Choir of St John's College Cambridge, Christopher Robinson

Finzi's ineffable enchantment at word setting and musicality generally has an enduring place in pastoral-mystical-ecstatic British music. The only Finzi boxed set. — Music Week, October 2016 More…
  • Release Date: 9th Sep 2016
  • Catalogue No: 8508017
  • Label: Naxos
  • Length: 8 hours 33 minutes

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Contents

Finzi: Clarinet Concerto, Op. 31

Work length28:03
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  • Robert Plane (clarinet)
  • Northern Sinfonia
  • Howard Griffiths
  • Recorded: 3-6 September 1995
  • Recording Venue: Newcastle, Australia

I. Allegro vigoroso

Track length7:53
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II. Adagio, ma senza rigore

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III. Rondo: Allegro giocoso

Track length8:29
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Finzi: Five Bagatelles for clarinet & piano, Op. 23

Work length14:38
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  • Robert Plane (clarinet)
  • Northern Sinfonia
  • Howard Griffiths
  • Recorded: 3-6 September 1995
  • Recording Venue: Newcastle, Australia

I. Prelude: Allegro deciso

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II. Romance: Andante tranquillo

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III. Carol: Andante semplice

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IV. Forlana: Allegretto grazioso

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V. Fughetta: Allegro vivace

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Finzi: Love's Labour's Lost Suite, Op. 28a

Work length4:55
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  • Northern Sinfonia
  • Howard Griffiths
  • Recorded: 3-6 September 1995
  • Recording Venue: Newcastle, Australia

VII. Soliloquy I: The King's Poem

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VIII. Soliloquy II: Longaville's Sonnet

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IX. Soliloquy III: Dumaine's Poem

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Finzi: A Severn Rhapsody, Op. 3

Work length6:45
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  • Northern Sinfonia
  • Howard Griffiths
  • Recorded: 3-6 September 1995
  • Recording Venue: Newcastle, Australia

Finzi: Romance for string orchestra, Op. 11

Work length8:16
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  • Northern Sinfonia
  • Howard Griffiths
  • Recorded: 3-6 September 1995
  • Recording Venue: Newcastle, Australia

Finzi: Introit for Solo Violin and Small Orchestra in F major, Op. 6

Work length8:22
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  • Lesley Hatfield (violin)
  • Northern Sinfonia
  • Howard Griffiths
  • Recorded: 3-6 September 1995
  • Recording Venue: Newcastle, Australia

Finzi: Cello Concerto, Op. 40

Work length37:22
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  • Tim Hugh (cello)
  • Northern Sinfonia
  • Howard Griffiths
  • Recorded: 14 and 26 January 2001
  • Recording Venue: Jubilee Theatre, Gosforth, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, UK

I. Allegro moderato

Track length15:32
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II. Andante quieto

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III. Rondo: Adagio - Allegro giocoso

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Finzi: Eclogue, Op. 10

Work length11:00
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  • Peter Donohoe (piano)
  • Northern Sinfonia
  • Howard Griffiths
  • Recorded: 14 and 26 January 2001
  • Recording Venue: Jubilee Theatre, Gosforth, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, UK

Finzi: Grand Fantasia and Toccata, Op. 38

Work length13:44
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  • Peter Donohoe (piano)
  • Northern Sinfonia
  • Howard Griffiths
  • Recorded: 14 and 26 January 2001
  • Recording Venue: Jubilee Theatre, Gosforth, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, UK

Excerpt, Finzi: Anthems (3), Op. 27

Work length4:21
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  • Christopher Whitton (organ)
  • Choir of St John's College Cambridge
  • Christopher Robinson
  • Recorded: 17-19 March 2001
  • Recording Venue: St John's College Chapel, Cambridge, UK

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

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Finzi: Magnificat, Op. 36

Work length9:30
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  • Christopher Whitton (organ)
  • Choir of St John's College Cambridge
  • Christopher Robinson
  • Recorded: 17-19 March 2001
  • Recording Venue: St John's College Chapel, Cambridge, UK

3 Anthems, Op. 27

Work length2:25
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  • Recorded: 17-19 March 2001
  • Recording Venue: St John's College Chapel, Cambridge, UK

3 Anthems, Op. 27: No. 1. My lovely one

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Excerpt, Finzi: Anthems (3), Op. 27

Work length7:30
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  • Christopher Whitton (organ)
  • Choir of St John's College Cambridge
  • Christopher Robinson
  • Recorded: 17-19 March 2001
  • Recording Venue: St John's College Chapel, Cambridge, UK

3 Anthems, Op. 27: No. 3. Welcome sweet and sacred feast

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Finzi: Thou didst delight my eyes, Op. 32

Work length2:20
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  • Choir of St John's College Cambridge
  • Christopher Robinson
  • Recorded: 17-19 March 2001
  • Recording Venue: St John's College Chapel, Cambridge, UK

Finzi: Let us now praise famous men, Op. 35

Work length2:52
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  • Christopher Whitton (organ)
  • Choir of St John's College Cambridge
  • Christopher Robinson
  • Recorded: 17-19 March 2001
  • Recording Venue: St John's College Chapel, Cambridge, UK

Finzi: Seven Poems of Robert Bridges, Op. 17

Work length18:57
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  • Choir of St John's College Cambridge
  • Christopher Robinson
  • Recorded: 17-19 March 2001
  • Recording Venue: St John's College Chapel, Cambridge, UK

No. 1. I praise the tender flower

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No. 2. I have loved flowers that fade

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No. 3. My spirit sang all day

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No. 4. Clear and gentle stream

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No. 5. Nightingales

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No. 6. Haste on, my joys!

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No. 7. Wherefore tonight so full of care

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Finzi: Lo, the Full, Final Sacrifice, Op. 26

Work length14:08
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  • Christopher Whitton (organ)
  • Choir of St John's College Cambridge
  • Christopher Robinson
  • Recorded: 17-19 March 2001
  • Recording Venue: St John's College Chapel, Cambridge, UK

Finzi: I Said to Love, Op. 19b

Work length13:34
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  • Roderick Williams (baritone), Iain Burnside (piano)
  • Recorded: 12-14 August 2004
  • Recording Venue: Potton Hall, Suffolk, England, UK

No. 1. I Need not Go

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No. 2. At Middle-Field Gate in February

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No. 3. Two Lips

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No. 4. In Five-score Summers (Meditation)

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No. 5. For Life I Had Never Cared Greatly

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No. 6. I Said to Love

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Finzi: Let Us Garlands Bring, Op. 18

Work length15:03
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  • Roderick Williams (baritone), Iain Burnside (piano)
  • Recorded: 12-14 August 2004
  • Recording Venue: Potton Hall, Suffolk, England, UK

No. 1. Come Away, Come Away, Death

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No. 2. Who is Silvia?

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No. 3. Fear No More the Heat o' the Sun

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No. 4. O Mistress Mine

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No. 5. It was a Lover and his Lass

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Finzi: Before and After Summer, Op. 16

Work length32:32
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  • Roderick Williams (baritone), Iain Burnside (piano)
  • Recorded: 12-14 August 2004
  • Recording Venue: Potton Hall, Suffolk, England, UK

No. 1. Childhood among the Ferns

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No. 2. Before and after Summer

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No. 3. The Self-unseeing

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No. 4. Overlooking the River

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No. 5. Channel Firing

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No. 6. In the Mind's Eye

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No. 7. The Too Short Time

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No. 8. Epeisodia

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No. 9. Amabel

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No. 10. He Abjures Love

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Finzi: Intimations of Immortality, Op. 29

Work length39:03
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  • James Gilchrist (tenor)
  • Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, Bournemouth Symphony Chorus
  • David Hill
  • Recorded: 4-5 June 2005
  • Recording Venue: The Concert Hall, Lighthouse, Poole, UK

Andante sostenuto

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There was a time when meadow, grove and stream

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The Rainbow comes and goes

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Now, while the birds thus sing a joyous song

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Ye blessed Creatures, I have heard the call

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Oh evil day! If I were sullen

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But there's a Tree, of many, one

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Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting

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Earth fills her lap with pleasures of her own

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Oh joy! That in our embers

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But for those first affections

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Then sing, ye Birds, sing, sing a joyous song!

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And O, ye Fountains, Meadows, Hills and Groves

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Finzi: For St Cecilia, Op. 30

Work length16:23
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  • James Gilchrist (tenor)
  • Bournemouth Symphony Chorus, Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra
  • David Hill
  • Recorded: 4-5 June 2005
  • Recording Venue: The Concert Hall, Lighthouse, Poole, UK

Delightful Goddess, in whose fashionings

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Changed is the age; mysterious, man's next star

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How came you, lady of fierce martyrdom

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How smilingly the saint among her friends

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Wherefore we bid you to the full concent

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Finzi: Earth and Air and Rain, Op. 15

Work length31:46
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  • Roderick Williams (baritone), Iain Burnside (piano)
  • Recorded: 27-28 August 2005
  • Recording Venue: Potton Hall, Suffolk, UK

No. 1. Summer Schemes

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No. 2. When I Set Out for Lyonesse

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No. 3. Waiting Both

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No. 4. The Phantom

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No. 5. So I Have Fared

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No. 6. Rollicum-Rorum

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No. 7. To Lizbie Browne

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No. 8. The Clock of the Years

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No. 9. In a Churchyard

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No. 10. Proud Songsters

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Finzi: To a Poet, Op. 13a

Work length16:53
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  • Roderick Williams (baritone), Iain Burnside (piano)
  • Recorded: 27-28 August 2005
  • Recording Venue: Potton Hall, Suffolk, UK

No. 1. To a Poet a Thousand Years Hence

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No. 2. On Parent Knees

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No. 3. Intrada

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No. 4. The Birthnight

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No. 5. June on Castle Hill

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No. 6. Ode on the Rejection of St Cecilia

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Finzi: By Footpath and Stile, Op. 2

Work length23:04
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  • Roderick Williams (baritone)
  • Sacconi Quartet
  • Recorded: 10 January 2006
  • Recording Venue: Potton Hall, Suffolk, UK

No. 1. Paying Calls

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No. 2. Where the Picnic Was

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No. 3. The Oxen

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No. 4. The Master and the Leaves

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No. 5. Voices from Things Growing in a Churchyard

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No. 6. Exeunt Omnes

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Finzi: A Young Man's Exhortation, Op. 14, Pt. 1

Work length14:15
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  • John Mark Ainsley (tenor), Iain Burnside (piano)
  • Recorded: 27-28 November 2006
  • Recording Venue: Potton Hall, Westleton, Suffolk, UK

No. 1. A Young Man's Exhortation

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No. 2. Ditty

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No. 3. Budmouth Dears

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No. 4. Her Temple

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No. 5. The Comet at Yell'ham

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A Young Man's Exhortation, Op. 14, Pt. 2

Work length14:59
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  • Recorded: 27-28 November 2006
  • Recording Venue: Potton Hall, Westleton, Suffolk, UK

No. 6. Shortening Days

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No. 7. The Sigh

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No. 8. Former Beauties

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No. 9. Transformations

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No. 10. The Dance Continued

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Finzi: Till Earth Outwears, Op. 19a

Work length17:22
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  • John Mark Ainsley (tenor), Iain Burnside (piano)
  • Recorded: 27-28 November 2006
  • Recording Venue: Potton Hall, Westleton, Suffolk, UK

No. 1. Let me enjoy the earth

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No. 2. In years defaced

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No. 3. The Market Girl

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No. 4. I look into my glass

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No. 5. It never looks like summer here

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No. 6. At a Lunar Eclipse

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No. 7. Life laughs onwards

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Finzi: Oh Fair to See, Op. 13

Work length17:12
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  • John Mark Ainsley (tenor), Iain Burnside (piano)
  • Recorded: 27-28 November 2006
  • Recording Venue: Potton Hall, Westleton, Suffolk, UK

No. 1. I say 'I'll seek her side'

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No. 2. Oh fair to see

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No. 3. As I lay in the early sun

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No. 4. Only the wanderer

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No. 5. To Joy

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No. 6. Harvest

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No. 7. Since we loved

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Finzi: Dies natalis, Op. 8

Work length26:18
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  • James Gilchrist (tenor)
  • Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra
  • David Hill
  • Recorded: 5-6 June 2007
  • Recording Venue: The Concert Hall, Lighthouse, Poole, UK

I. Intrada

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II. Rhapsody

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III. The Rapture

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IV. Wonder

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V. The Salutation

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Finzi: Prelude for string orchestra, Op. 25

Work length4:31
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  • Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra
  • David Hill
  • Recorded: 5-6 June 2007
  • Recording Venue: The Concert Hall, Lighthouse, Poole, UK

Finzi: Fall of the Leaf

Work length9:36
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  • Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra
  • David Hill
  • Recorded: 5-6 June 2007
  • Recording Venue: The Concert Hall, Lighthouse, Poole, UK

Finzi: Two Sonnets by John Milton for Tenor and small Orchestra

Work length7:40
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  • James Gilchrist (tenor)
  • Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra
  • David Hill
  • Recorded: 5-6 June 2007
  • Recording Venue: The Concert Hall, Lighthouse, Poole, UK

No. 1. When I consider

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No. 2. How soon hath time

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Finzi: Nocturne (New Year Music)

Work length9:35
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  • Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra
  • David Hill
  • Recorded: 5-6 June 2007
  • Recording Venue: The Concert Hall, Lighthouse, Poole, UK

Finzi: Farewell to Arms for Tenor and small Orchestra

Work length8:53
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  • James Gilchrist (tenor)
  • Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra
  • David Hill
  • Recorded: 5-6 June 2007
  • Recording Venue: The Concert Hall, Lighthouse, Poole, UK

I. Introduction

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II. Aria: His golden locks

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