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GERALD FINZI (1901-1956)
Earth and Air and Rain
Five song cycles to words by Thomas Hardy
CD1 (59'58)
Earth and Air and Rain Op. 15 sung by Stephen Varcoe
1. Summer Schemes
2. When I set out for Lyonnesse
3. Waiting Both
4. The Phantom
5. So I have fared
6. Rollicum-rorum
7. To Lizbie Browne
8. The Clock of the Years
9. In a Churchyard
10. Proud Songsters
Till Earth outwears Op. 19a sung by Martyn Hill
11. Let me enjoy the earth before
12. In years defaced
13. The Market-Girl
14. I look into my glass
15. It never looks like summer here
16. At a lunar eclipse
17. Life Laughs Onward
I said to Love Op 19b sung by Stephen Varcoe
18. I need not go before
19. At Middle-Field Gate in February
20. Two Lips
21. In five-score summers
22. For Life I had never cared greatly
23. I said to Love
CD2 (60'00)
A Young Man’s Exhortation Op. 14 sung by Martyn Hill
Group 1
1. A Young Man’s Exhortation
2. Ditty
3. Budmouth Dears
4. Her Temple
5. The Comet at Yell’ham
Group 2
6. Shortening Days
7. The Sigh
8. Former Beauties
9. Transformations
10. The Dance Continued
Before and After Summer Op. 16 sung by Stephen Varcoe
11. Childhood among the Ferns
12. Before and After Summer
13. The Self-Unseeing
14. Overlooking the River
15. Channel Firing
16. In the Mind’s Eye
17. The Too Short Time
18. Epeisodia
19. Amabel
20. He Abjures Love
Martyn Hill - tenor
Stephen Varcoe - baritone
Clifford Benson - piano
‘There are so many really subtle and distinguished performances in this set, and so much sheerly beautiful singing, that I shall be listening to it often over the years.’ Gramophone
Hyperion 2cds CDD22070
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