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Finzi - Tenor Songs | Naxos - English Song Series 8570414

Finzi - Tenor Songs

Label: Naxos - English Song Series

Cat No: 8570414

Barcode: 0747313041411

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Genre: Vocal/Choral

Release Date: 29th May 2006

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Contents

Artists

John Mark Ainsley (tenor)
Iain Burnside (piano)

Works

Finzi, Gerald

A Young Man's Exhortation, op.14
Oh Fair to See, op.13b
Till Earth Outwears, op.19

Artists

John Mark Ainsley (tenor)
Iain Burnside (piano)

About

Gerald Finzi made an unrivalled contribution to British twentieth-century song-writing, especially in his settings of Thomas Hardy, his favourite poet. He felt an empathy with Hardy’s bleak fatalism and his anger at the suffering that mankind afflicts on mankind, writing tellingly: ‘I have always loved him so much and from earliest days responded, not so much to an influence, as to a kinship with him.’
 
This third and final volume of Finzi songs includes two Hardy settings, A Young Man’s Exhortation and Till Earth Outwears, which share the poet’s preoccupation with the ‘passing preciousness of dreams’, the transience of life and death itself. The posthumously published Oh Fair to see draws on various authors, from Christina Rossetti to Blunden and Bridges. 
 
This time the soloist is tenor John Mark Ainsley, whose recent recording of Vaughan Williams’s On Wenlock Edge was nominated for a Gramophone Award, while Iain Burnside again provides piano accompaniment.
 
“This wonderful CD, the fifteenth volume in the Naxos English Song series, is another important step in the process of establishing Finzi in his rightful place as one of the most important 20th century composers for the voice.” MusicWeb on 8.557963 (Finzi Songs Vol. 2)

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