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
Danish Chamber Orchestra; Adam Fischer
DUO Goni-Perretta
Wenting Shi
Stuttgar
Schilli
Consone Quartet, Guy Fishman & Renee Hemsing
Vincenzo Maltempo
Simone Pedroni, Maria Grazia Aschei, Fausto Ghiazza, Christiana Coppola, Luca Stocco, Marco Bronzi
Silentium! Ensemble Tomas Netopil
Serenissma Ensemble
Roberta Pandolfi
Orchestra of de Teatro Vittorio Emanuele of Messina/Francesco Attardi
Milan Wind Quintet/Luigi Magistrelli/Gianni Biocotino/Silvano Scanziani/Paolo Biagini/Gioele Corrad
