Introit: The Music of Gerald Finzi
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GERALD FINZI
Introit: The Music of Gerald Finzi
Amy Dickson (saxophones), Thomas Gould (violin), Tom Poster (piano) & Nicolas Fleury (French horn) / Aurora Orchestra, Nicholas Collon
[ Decca / CD ]
Release Date: Wednesday 11 May 2016
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To commemorate the 60th Anniversary of British composer Gerald Finzi's passing, Decca Classics and the Finzi Trust collaborate on a special album to bring some of Finzi's finest works to a whole new audience.
These pieces are some of the best kept secrets of pastoral England - it's time Finzi's lush, lyrical music found a wider audience. Re-imagined popular vocal works are performed by Classic Brit winner and Grammy nominee Amy Dickson (saxophones). Other soloists include Thomas Gould (violin), Tom Poster (piano) and Nicolas Fleury (French horn).
This release invigorates Finzi's music with the dynamic Aurora Orchestra and Nicholas Collon, playing arrangements specially commissioned from some of the country's best arrangers by the Finzi Trust - the 'guardians' of this wonderful repertoire.
"This is an enticing package. You'd have to be a fairly diehard Anglophobe not to be attracted to a new anthology of Finzi's shorter orchestral works, performed by one of Britain's smartest young orchestras and conducted by Nicholas Collon…the Aurora Orchestra play this music with genuine freshness. Phrases are expressively moulded, inner parts nurtured and long lines beautifully sustained, with a lively attention to detail" (Gramophone, April 2016)
"There are lissom performances of Finzi's pastoral miniatures Prelude, Romance and A Severn Rhapsody, and conductor Nicholas Collon shapes the Three Soliloquies from Love's Labour's Lost with winning pliancy" (BBC Music June 2016)
Tracks:
Amen from Lo, the Full, Final Sacrifice Op. 26 arr. Mealor
Dies natalis, Op. 8: The Salutation
Who is Silvia?
Love's Labours Lost, Op 28: Three Soliloquies
Clear and gentle stream (No. 4 from Seven Partsongs - Poems by Robert Bridges, Op. 17)
Rollicum-rorum
Come away, come away, death
Prelude for string orchestra, Op. 25
Romance for string orchestra, Op. 11
To Lizbie Browne
Dies Natalis, Op. 8: Intrada
Fear No More The Heat O' The Sun (No. 3 from Let us garlands bring, Op. 18)
A Severn Rhapsody, Op. 3
Eclogue, Op. 10
Introit for Solo Violin and Small Orchestra in F major, Op. 6
