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Gerald Raphael Finzi was born into a fairly prosperous family on 14th July 1901. His father was a successful London shipbroker. There were four other brothers and sisters. He was descended from Italian Jewish ancestry and his parents were, at that time practising Orthodox Jews. The composer never really acknowledged this religious heritage. In fact he wrote a number of distinctively Christian works including fine setting of the Magnificat.
Finzi was educated privately. However during the First World War his mother moved the family to Yorkshire. There Finzi studied with the young composer Ernest Farrar. After Farrar had received his call up papers, Finzi completed the first part of his musical education with the great organist at York Minster-Edward Bairstow.
It was during his early life that Finzi first became aware of the transience of life- one of the major themes of his music. In the space of a few years his father and three brothers died. Ernest Farrar was killed on the Western Front. This sudden realisation of the harshness of the world recommended the poetry of Thomas Traherne - the great Platonist poet who dwelt on the innocence of the soul of a child and of course William Wordsworth's Intimations of Immortality.
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Review: A wide-ranging quintessentially English setting of lyrical poetry by Robert Bridges, resulting in some of the finest unaccompanied part songs of the period. There is a great deal of variety in the set from the simple and direct setting of I praise the tender flower, through the elated emotions of My spirit sang all day, to the sultry summer by the river in Clear and gentle stream and the weighty emotions expressed in the last song Wherefore tonight so full of care. Performed complete, lasting nearly 20 minutes, the Seven Part Songs provide a most attractive item in a concert programme, suitable for coupling with madrigals and part songs ancient and modern
Songlist: I Praise the Tender Flower, I Have Loved Flowers that Fade, My Spirit Sang All Day, Clear and Gentle Stream, Nightingales, Hast on, my joys!, Wherefore to-night so full of care
Review: For the first time, the lovely songs of British composer Gerald Finzi (1901-1956) are collected together in one volume, in two keys. This new collection includes some first time transpositions as well. Contents: I SAID TO LOVE: I need no go - At Middle-Field Gate in February - Two Lips - In five-score summers! - For Life I had never cared greatly - I said to Love. LET US GARLANDS BRING: Come away, come away, death - Who is Sylvia? - Fear no more the heat o' the sun - O Mistress Mine - It was a lover and his lass. LOVE'S LABOUR'S LOST: Songs for Hiems and Ver - Songs for Moth: Riddle Song - False Concolinel. OH FAIR TO SEE: I say, I'll seek her- Oh fair to see - As I lay in the early sun - Only the wanderer - To Joy - Harvest - Since we loved. TILL EARTH OUTWEARS: Let me enjoy the earth - In years defaced - The Market-Girl - I look into my glass - It never looks like summer - At a Lunar Eclipse - Life Laughs Onward. TO A POET: To a Poet a Thousand Years Hence - On parent knees - Intrada - The Birthnight - June on Castle Hill - Ode on the rejection of St. Cecelia. A YOUNG MAN'S EXHORTATION: PART I: A Young Man's Exhortation - Ditty - Budmouth Dears - Her Temple - The Comet at Yell'ham - PART II: Shortening Days - The Sigh - Former Beauties - Transformations - The Dance Continued.
Songlist: O Mistress Mine, Ditty, Fear no more the heat o' the sun, OH FAIR TO SEE, Intrada, I SAID TO LOVE, I need not go, At Middle-Field Gate in February, Two Lips, In five-score summers!, For Life I had never cared greatly, I said to Love, LET US GARLANDS BRING, Come away, come away, death, Who is Silvia?, It was a lover and his lass, MUSIC FOR 'LOVE'S LABOUR'S LOST', Songs of Hiems and Ver, Songs for Moth: 1. Riddle Song, Songs for Moth: 2. False Concolinel, I say, 'I'll seek her', Oh fair to see, As I lay in the early sun, Only the wanderer, To Joy, Harvest, Since we loved, TILL EARTH OUTWEARS, Let me enjoy the earth, In years defaced, and more.
Voicing: High
Review: Contents: BEFORE AND AFTER SUMMER: Childhood among the Ferns - Before and after Summer - The Self-unseeing - Overlooking the River - Channel Firing - In the Mind's Eye - The Too Short Time - Epeisodia - Amabel - He Abjures Love. EARTH AND AIR AND RAIN: Summer Schemes - When I set out for Lyonnesse - Waiting for Both - The Phantom - So I have fared - Rollicum-Rorum - To Lizbie - The Clock of the Years - In a Churchyard - Proud Songsters. I SAID TO LOVE: I need not go - At Middle-Field Gate in February - Two Lips - In five-score - Summers - For Life I had never cared greatly - I said to Love. LET US GARLANDS BRING: Come away, come away, death - Who is Sylvia? - Fear no more the heat o' the sun - O Mistress Mine - It was a lover and his lass. LOVE'S LABOUR'S LOST: Songs for Heims and Ver (Song for Moth) - Riddle Song - False Colcolinel. OH FAIR TO SEE: I say I'll seek her - Oh fair to see - As I lay in the early sun - Only the wanderer - To Joy - Harvest - Since we loved. TILL EARTH OUTWEARS: Let me enjoy the earth - In years defaced - The Market-Girl - I look into my glass - It never looks like summer - At a lunar Eclipse - Life Laughs Onward. TO A POET: To a Poet a Thousand Years Hence - On Parent Knees - Intrada - The Birthnight - June on Castle Hill - Ode on the rejection of St. Cecelia.
Songlist: O Mistress Mine, Fear no more the heat o' the sun, OH FAIR TO SEE, Intrada, I SAID TO LOVE, BEFORE AND AFTER SUMMER, I need not go, At Middle-Field Gate in February, Two Lips, In five-score summers!, For Life I had never cared greatly, I said to Love, LET US GARLANDS BRING, Come away, come away, death, Who is Silvia?, It was a lover and his lass, MUSIC FOR 'LOVE'S LABOUR'S LOST', Songs of Hiems and Ver, Songs for Moth: 1. Riddle Song, Songs for Moth: 2. False Concolinel, I say, 'I'll seek her', Oh fair to see, As I lay in the early sun, Only the wanderer, To Joy, Harvest, Since we loved, TILL EARTH OUTWEARS, Let me enjoy the earth, In years defaced, and more.
Voicing: Medium
Review: With Piano Reduction. This work is intended for performance with an adequately large chorus. Duration: ca. 17 minutes. Orchestral parts available on rental from Boosey & Hawkes.
Review: for Soprano and Baritone soli, SATB chorus and orchestra or ensemble. Vocal score comes with piano reduction.
Review: Contents: Fear No More the Heat of the Sun - It Was a Lover and His Lass - O Mistress Mine - Who Is Sylvia? - Come Away Death.
Voicing: Baritone Bass
Review: Vocal/Choral Score. Full score and parts available on rental from Boosey & Hawkes.
Review: Nightingales is a beautiful song for 5-part mixed voices (SSATB) a cappella, taken from Gerald Finzi's settings of Seven Poems of Robert Bridges.
Review: New edition with completion by Christian Alexander of the young composer's first extended work; only the instrumental prelude was performed during Finzi's lifetime. The other three movements are settings of poems by John Masefield, Thomas Hardy and Wilfrid Wilson Gibson.
Review: Gerald Finzi is one of the most admired British composers of the 20th Century. His music embraces a rich variety of moods, from elegiac lyricism, through spiritual reflection, to radiant joy. Finzi epitomised much that was characteristic of English Music, Literature and Landscape. He was part of that generation of composers who came to maturity in the middle of the 20th century. He was friends with Ralph Vaughan Williams, Edmund Rubbra, Howard Ferguson, Arthur Bliss and Robin Milford. The beautiful and sensitive nature of Gerald Finzi's compositions is displayed in these six excellent 4-part arrangements.
Songlist: All This Night, I Praise the Tender Flower, Clear and Gentle Stream, Wherefore Tonight So Full of Care, White-Flowering Days
Review: One of most popular of 20th century British composers, in concert and on disc , Gerald Finzi's works are lyrical, subtly understated, often elegiac in tone, mingling human pain and natural beauty. These beautiful pieces are suitable for funerals and memorials.
Songlist: Life a Right Shadow Is, This World A Hunting Is, This Life, Which Seems So Fair
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Song Name | Arranger | Composer | Artist | Item Title | Format | Trax | |
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A Linnet in a Gilded Cage | Gerald Finzi | A Linnet in a Gilded Cage | Sheet Music (2-Part) | MORE DETAILS | |||
A Lullaby | Gerald Finzi | Tom Shorter (Editor) | Sleep, Holy Babe - Lullabies for Christmas | Songbook | MORE DETAILS | ||
All This Night | Gerald Finzi | St. Olaf Choir | Child Of Light Be Born In Us | 2 CDs | MORE DETAILS | ||
All This Night | Gerald Finzi | St. Olaf Choir | Light of All Creation ... Scatter the Darkness | 2 CDs | MORE DETAILS | ||
Clear and Gentle Stream | Gerald Finzi | Gerald Finzi | 7 Poems Of Robert Bridges | Songbook | MORE DETAILS | ||
Clear and gentle stream! | Gerald Finzi | Quink Vocal Ensemble | Songs and Elegies | 1 CD | MORE DETAILS | ||
Dancing on the Hilltops | Gerald Finzi | Dancing on the Hilltops | Sheet Music (Unison) | MORE DETAILS | |||
Dead in the Cold | Gerald Finzi | Dead in the Cold | Sheet Music (2-Part) | MORE DETAILS | |||
Fear no more the heat o' the sun | Gerald Finzi | Mary King | Boosey Voice Coach - High Voice | Songbook & CD | MORE DETAILS | ||
Ferry Me Across the Water | Gerald Finzi | Ferry Me Across the Water | Sheet Music (Unison) | MORE DETAILS | |||
God is gone up | Gerald Finzi | God is gone up | Sheet Music (SATB divisi) | MORE DETAILS | |||
God is gone up | Gerald Finzi | Opus 7 | From Captivity to the Holy City | 1 CD | MORE DETAILS | ||
God Is Gone Up, Op. 27, No. 2 | Gerald Finzi | University of Alberta Madrigal Singers | The Passing of The Year | 1 CD | MORE DETAILS | ||
Gospel (Luke 2:1-20)- Pastors Bruce Benson and Jennifer KoenigIn Terra Pax (Excerpt) | Gerald Finzi | St. Olaf Choir | Where Peace and Love and Hope Abide | 2 CDs | MORE DETAILS | ||
Hast on, my joys! | Gerald Finzi | Gerald Finzi | 7 Poems Of Robert Bridges | Songbook | MORE DETAILS | ||
Haste on, my joys! | Gerald Finzi | Haste on, my joys! | Sheet Music (SSATB) | MORE DETAILS | |||
Haste on, my joys! | Gerald Finzi | Quink Vocal Ensemble | Songs and Elegies | 1 CD | MORE DETAILS | ||
I Have Loved Flowers that Fade | Gerald Finzi | Gerald Finzi | 7 Poems Of Robert Bridges | Songbook | MORE DETAILS | ||
I Have Loved Flowers that Fade | Gerald Finzi | Minnesota Choral Artists | Wanting Memories | 1 CD | MORE DETAILS | ||
I have loved flowers that fade | Gerald Finzi | Quink Vocal Ensemble | Songs and Elegies | 1 CD | MORE DETAILS | ||
I Praise the Tender Flower | Gerald Finzi | Gerald Finzi | 7 Poems Of Robert Bridges | Songbook | MORE DETAILS | ||
I praise the tender flower | Gerald Finzi | Quink Vocal Ensemble | Songs and Elegies | 1 CD | MORE DETAILS | ||
In Terra Pax (Excerpt) | Gerald Finzi | St. Olaf Choir | Where Peace and Love and Hope Abide | DVD | MORE DETAILS | ||
Life a Right Shadow Is | Gerald Finzi | Gerald Finzi | Three Short Elegies | Sheet Music (SATB) | MORE DETAILS | ||
Life a right shadow is | Gerald Finzi | Quink Vocal Ensemble | Songs and Elegies | 1 CD | MORE DETAILS | ||
Lo, the Full, Final Sacrifice | Gerald Finzi | Princeton Singers | In The Midst of Life | 1 CD | MORE DETAILS | ||
My spirit sang all day | Gerald Finzi | Clifford Bartlett | Madrigals and Partsongs | Songbook | MORE DETAILS | ||
My Spirit Sang All Day | Gerald Finzi | Gerald Finzi | 7 Poems Of Robert Bridges | Songbook | MORE DETAILS | ||
My Spirit Sang All Day | Gerald Finzi | Princeton Singers | In The Midst of Life | 1 CD | MORE DETAILS | ||
My Spirit Sang All Day | Gerald Finzi | Bemidji Choir and Chamber Singers | Awakening | 1 CD | MORE DETAILS | ||
My Spirit Sang All Day | Gerald Finzi | Luther College Nordic Choir | Everlasting God | 1 CD | MORE DETAILS | ||
My Spirit Sang All Day | Gerald Finzi | University of Utah Singers | I Thank You God for Most This Amazing Day | 1 CD | MORE DETAILS | ||
My Spirit Sang All Day | Gerald Finzi | Minnesota Choral Artists | Wanting Memories | 1 CD | MORE DETAILS | ||
My spirit sang all day | Gerald Finzi | Quink Vocal Ensemble | Songs and Elegies | 1 CD | MORE DETAILS | ||
Nightingales | Gerald Finzi | Gerald Finzi | 7 Poems Of Robert Bridges | Songbook | MORE DETAILS | ||
Nightingales | Gerald Finzi | Quink Vocal Ensemble | Songs and Elegies | 1 CD | MORE DETAILS | ||
Rollicum rorum | Gerald Finzi | Mary King | Boosey Voice Coach - High Voice | Songbook & CD | MORE DETAILS | ||
The Lily Has a Smooth Stalk | Gerald Finzi | The Lily Has a Smooth Stalk | Sheet Music (Unison) | MORE DETAILS | |||
This life which seems so fair | Gerald Finzi | Quink Vocal Ensemble | Songs and Elegies | 1 CD | MORE DETAILS | ||
This Life, Which Seems So Fair | Gerald Finzi | Gerald Finzi | Three Short Elegies | Sheet Music | MORE DETAILS | ||
This World A Hunting Is | Gerald Finzi | Gerald Finzi | Three Short Elegies | Sheet Music | MORE DETAILS | ||
This world a hunting is | Gerald Finzi | Quink Vocal Ensemble | Songs and Elegies | 1 CD | MORE DETAILS | ||
Wherefore to-night so full of care | Gerald Finzi | Gerald Finzi | 7 Poems Of Robert Bridges | Songbook | MORE DETAILS | ||
Wherefore to-night so full of care | Gerald Finzi | Quink Vocal Ensemble | Songs and Elegies | 1 CD | MORE DETAILS |
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