Release Date: 05 January 2007
Label: Naxos - Nxc / Naxos Classics
Packaging Type: Jewel Case
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 747313041077
Genres: Classical
Composer/Series: WESLEY
Description
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.
Tracklisting
Peter Otto; Nashville Symphony; Giancarlo Guerrero
Dariia Lytvishko
Michael Kaykov
DUO Goni-Perretta
Wenting Shi
Schilli
Schilli
Warsaw Po:Wit
Julian Joseph and Marcelo Bratke
Timothy Ridout; Orchestre de Chambre de Lausanne; Jamie Phillips
The Chapel Choir of Selwyn College, Cambridge, Adam Field, Sarah MacDonald
Portsmouth Cathedral Choir, Sachin Gunga, David Price
Julien Van Mellaerts, Dylan Perez
Aisslinn Nosky and Yiheng Yang
Valerio Celentano
Valentina Danelon/Cristina Santin
