FINZI, G.: Finzi Anthology (8CD)

Disc 1

Finzi, Gerald
Clarinet Concerto, Op. 31
1.  I. Allegro vigoroso 00:07:53
2.  II. Adagio, ma senza rigore 00:11:41
3.  III. Rondo: Allegro giocoso 00:08:30

Finzi, Gerald
Ashmore, Lawrence, arranger(s)
5 Bagatelles, Op. 23a (arr. L. Ashmore for clarinet and strings)
4.  I. Prelude: Allegro deciso 00:03:19
5.  II. Romance: Andante tranquillo 00:04:14
6.  III. Carol: Andante semplice 00:01:57
7.  IV. Forlana: Allegretto grazioso 00:02:58
8.  V. Fughetta: Allegro vivace 00:02:12

Finzi, Gerald
Love's Labour's Lost, Op. 28a (excerpts)
9.  VII. Soliloquy I: The King's Poem 00:01:58
10.  VIII. Soliloquy II: Longaville's Sonnet 00:01:41
11.  IX. Soliloquy III: Dumaine's Poem 00:01:17
A Severn Rhapsody, Op. 3
12.  A Severn Rhapsody, Op. 3 00:06:46
Romance in E-Flat Major, Op. 11
13.  Romance in E - Flat Major, Op. 11 00:08:16
Introit in F Major, Op. 6
14.  Introit in F Major, Op. 6 00:08:22

Disc 2

Finzi, Gerald
Cello Concerto in A Minor, Op. 40
1.  I. Allegro moderato 00:15:28
2.  II. Andante quieto 00:12:32
3.  III. Rondo: Adagio - Allegro giocoso 00:09:08
Eclogue, Op. 10
4.  Eclogue, Op. 10 00:10:51
Grand Fantasia and Toccata, Op. 38
5.  Grand Fantasia and Toccata, Op. 38 00:13:44

Disc 3

Finzi, Gerald
Taylor, Edward, lyricist(s)
3 Anthems, Op. 27: No. 2. God is gone up
1.  3 Anthems, Op. 27: No. 2. God is gone up 00:04:26

Finzi, Gerald
Bible - New Testament, lyricist(s)
Magnificat, Op. 36
2.  Magnificat, Op. 36 00:09:30

Finzi, Gerald
Taylor, Edward, lyricist(s)
3 Anthems, Op. 27: No. 1. My lovely one
3.  3 Anthems, Op. 27: No. 1. My lovely one 00:02:28
3 Anthems, Op. 27: No. 3. Welcome sweet and sacred feast
4.  3 Anthems, Op. 27: No. 3. Welcome sweet and sacred feast 00:07:30

Finzi, Gerald
Bridges, Robert Seymour, lyricist(s)
Thou didst delight my eyes, Op. 32
5.  Thou didst delight my eyes, Op. 32 00:02:20

Finzi, Gerald
Let us now praise famous men, Op. 35
6.  Let us now praise famous men, Op. 35 00:02:52

Finzi, Gerald
Bridges, Robert Seymour, lyricist(s)
7 Unaccompanied Partsongs, Op. 17
7.  No. 1. I praise the tender flower 00:02:17
8.  No. 2. I have loved flowers that fade 00:02:30
9.  No. 3. My spirit sang all day 00:01:40
10.  No. 4. Clear and gentle stream 00:04:13
11.  No. 5. Nightingales 00:03:05
12.  No. 6. Haste on, my joys! 00:02:00
13.  No. 7. Wherefore tonight so full of care 00:03:11

Finzi, Gerald
Crashaw, Richard, lyricist(s)
Lo, the full, final sacrifice, Op. 26
14.  Lo, the full, final sacrifice, Op. 26 00:14:08

Disc 4

Finzi, Gerald
Hardy, Thomas, lyricist(s)
I Said to Love, Op. 19b
1.  No. 1. I Need not Go 00:02:10
2.  No. 2. At Middle - Field Gate in February 00:03:27
3.  No. 3. Two Lips 00:00:56
4.  No. 4. In Five - score Summers (Meditation) 00:01:47
5.  No. 5. For Life I Had Never Cared Greatly 00:02:07
6.  No. 6. I Said to Love 00:03:06

Finzi, Gerald
Shakespeare, William, lyricist(s)
Let Us Garlands Bring, Op. 18
7.  No. 1. Come Away, Come Away, Death 00:03:30
8.  No. 2. Who is Silvia 00:01:36
9.  No. 3. Fear No More the Heat o' the Sun 00:05:42
10.  No. 4. O Mistress Mine 00:01:42
11.  No. 5. It was a Lover and his Lass 00:02:32

Finzi, Gerald
Hardy, Thomas, lyricist(s)
Before and after Summer, Op. 16
12.  No. 1. Childhood among the Ferns 00:03:29
13.  No. 2. Before and after Summer 00:02:36
14.  No. 3. The Self - unseeing 00:02:54
15.  No. 4. Overlooking the River 00:02:38
16.  No. 5. Channel Firing 00:06:38
17.  No. 6. In the Mind's Eye 00:01:48
18.  No. 7. The Too Short Time 00:03:07
19.  No. 8. Epeisodia 00:02:03
20.  No. 9. Amabel 00:02:58
21.  No. 10. He Abjures Love 00:04:33

Disc 5

Finzi, Gerald
Wordsworth, William, lyricist(s)
Intimations of Immortality, Op. 29
1.  Andante sostenuto 00:04:43
2.  There was a time when meadow, grove and stream 00:02:56
3.  The Rainbow comes and goes 00:02:04
4.  Now, while the birds thus sing a joyous song 00:04:44
5.  Ye blessed Creatures, I have heard the call 00:00:58
6.  Oh evil day! If I were sullen 00:02:14
7.  But there's a Tree, of many, one 00:01:51
8.  Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting 00:03:05
9.  Earth fills her lap with pleasures of her own 00:01:52
10.  Oh joy! That in our embers 00:02:49
11.  But for those first affections 00:03:52
12.  Then sing, ye Birds, sing, sing a joyous song! 00:03:21
13.  And O, ye Fountains, Meadows, Hills and Groves 00:04:29

Finzi, Gerald
Blunden, Edmund Charles, lyricist(s)
For St Cecilia, Op. 30
14.  Delightful Goddess, in whose fashionings 00:02:31
15.  Changed is the age; mysterious, man's next star 00:03:18
16.  How came you, lady of fierce martyrdom 00:04:43
17.  How smilingly the saint among her friends 00:02:13
18.  Wherefore we bid you to the full concent 00:03:51

Disc 6

Finzi, Gerald
Hardy, Thomas, lyricist(s)
Earth and Air and Rain, Op. 15
1.  No. 1. Summer Schemes 00:02:34
2.  No. 2. When I Set Out for Lyonesse 00:02:06
3.  No. 3. Waiting Both 00:03:24
4.  No. 4. The Phantom 00:03:45
5.  No. 5. So I Have Fared 00:02:49
6.  No. 6. Rollicum - Rorum 00:01:41
7.  No. 7. To Lizbie Browne 00:04:01
8.  No. 8. The Clock of the Years 00:04:24
9.  No. 9. In a Churchyard 00:03:51
10.  No. 10. Proud Songsters 00:03:05

Finzi, Gerald
Lucas, Frank Lawrence / Barker, George / Flecker, James Elroy / Traherne, Thomas / De la Mare, Walter / Jones, William, lyricist(s)
To a Poet, Op. 13a
11.  No. 1. To a Poet a Thousand Years Hence 00:05:02
12.  No. 2. On Parent Knees 00:01:33
13.  No. 3. Intrada 00:01:34
14.  No. 4. The Birthnight 00:01:45
15.  No. 5. June on Castle Hill 00:02:01
16.  No. 6. Ode on the Rejection of St Cecilia 00:05:07

Finzi, Gerald
Hardy, Thomas, lyricist(s)
By Footpath and Stile, Op. 2
17.  No. 1. Paying Calls 00:03:47
18.  No. 2. Where the Picnic Was 00:04:04
19.  No. 3. The Oxen 00:02:42
20.  No. 4. The Master and the Leaves 00:02:49
21.  No. 5. Voices from Things Growing in a Churchyard 00:06:34
22.  No. 6. Exeunt Omnes 00:03:17

Disc 7

Finzi, Gerald
Hardy, Thomas, lyricist(s)
A Young Man's Exhortation, Op. 14
1.  No. 1. A Young Man's Exhortation 00:03:08
2.  No. 2. Ditty 00:03:28
3.  No. 3. Budmouth Dears 00:01:58
4.  No. 4. Her Temple 00:02:08
5.  No. 5. The Comet at Yell'ham 00:03:37
6.  No. 6. Shortening Days 00:02:51
7.  No. 7. The Sigh 00:03:41
8.  No. 8. Former Beauties 00:03:06
9.  No. 9. Transformations 00:01:42
10.  No. 10. The Dance Continued 00:03:38
Till Earth Outwears, Op. 19a
11.  No. 1. Let me enjoy the earth 00:02:29
12.  No. 2. In years defaced 00:03:38
13.  No. 3. The Market Girl 00:01:52
14.  No. 4. I look into my glass 00:02:13
15.  No. 5. It never looks like summer here 00:01:17
16.  No. 6. At a Lunar Eclipse 00:03:51
17.  No. 7. Life laughs onwards 00:02:09

Finzi, Gerald
Rossetti, Christina / Blunden, Edmund Charles / Shanks, Edward / Gurney, Ivor / Bridges, Robert Seymour / Hardy, Thomas, lyricist(s)
Oh Fair to See, Op. 13b
18.  No. 1. I say 'I'll seek her side' 00:02:46
19.  No. 2. Oh fair to see 00:01:36
20.  No. 3. As I lay in the early sun 00:01:50
21.  No. 4. Only the wanderer 00:01:54
22.  No. 5. To Joy 00:03:27
23.  No. 6. Harvest 00:04:19
24.  No. 7. Since we loved 00:01:26

Disc 8

Finzi, Gerald
Traherne, Thomas, lyricist(s)
Dies natalis, Op. 8
1.  I. Intrada 00:05:36
2.  II. Rhapsody 00:07:32
3.  III. The Rapture 00:04:01
4.  IV. Wonder 00:04:28
5.  V. The Salutation 00:04:39

Finzi, Gerald
Prelude in F Minor, Op. 25
6.  Prelude in F Minor, Op. 25 00:04:35
The Fall of the Leaf, Op. 20
7.  The Fall of the Leaf, Op. 20 00:09:34

Finzi, Gerald
Milton, John, lyricist(s)
2 Sonnets, Op. 12
8.  No. 1. When I consider 00:04:46
9.  No. 2. How soon hath time 00:02:51

Finzi, Gerald
New Year Music, Op. 7
10.  New Year Music, Op. 7 00:09:39

Finzi, Gerald
Peele, George / Knevet, Ralph, lyricist(s)
Farewell to Arms, Op. 9
11.  I. Introduction 00:03:56
12.  II. Aria: His golden locks 00:05:05
        
Total Playing Time: 08:34:31