034571154329

Finzi: Intimations Of Immortality & Dies Natalis

Matthew Best: Corydon Orchestra

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Format: CD

Cat No: CDH55432

Release Date:  01 February 2015

Label:  Helios / Hyperion Records Ltd

Packaging Type:  Jewel Case

No of Units:  1

Barcode:  034571154329

Genres:  Classical  Orchestral  

  • Description

    This album brings together two of Finzi’s most characteristic works. Dies natalis, a setting of prose and verse by the seventeenth-century metaphysical poet Thomas Traherne, is a piece of sublime concord and timelessness, music which vividly suggests the vision of a child’s innocence and unsullied perception of the world which lies at the heart of Traherne’s philosophy. Intimations of Immortality is by contrast a lament for the lost joys of Traherne’s idealized childhood. Finzi uses Wordsworth’s famous ode to convey his view that ‘a dead poet lives in many a live stockbroker’ and the result is a work of arresting beauty.

  • Tracklisting

      Disc 1

      Side 1

      • 1. Intrada
      • 2. Rhapsody
      • 3. The Rapture
      • 4. Wonder
      • 5. The Salutation
      • 6. Andante Sostenuto
      • 7. There Was a Time When Meadow, Grove, and Stream
      • 8. The Rainbow Comes and Goes
      • 9. Now, While the Birds Thus Sing Joyous Song
      • 10. Ye Blessed Creatures, I Have Heard the Call
      • 11. Oh Evil Day! If I Were Sullen
      • 12. But There's a Tree, of Many, One
      • 13. Our Birth Is But a Sleep and a Forgetting
      • 14. Earth Fills Her Lap With Pleasures of Her Own
      • 15. O Joy! That in Our Embers
      • 16. But for Those First Affections
      • 17. Then Sing, Ye Birds, Sing, Sing a Joyous Song!
      • 18. And O, Ye Fountains, Meadows, Hills, and Groves