Finzi, Gerald - Songs - Ainsley, John Mark (tenor)
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Gerald Finzi made an unrivalled contribution to British twentieth-century song-writing, especially in his settings of Thomas Hardy, his favourite poet. 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. Volumes 1 and 2 of the complete Finzi songs with piano are available on Naxos 8.557644 and 8.557963.
John Mark Ainsley, tenor
Iain Burnside, piano
Gerald Finzi
A Young Man's Exhortation, Op. 14
1. No. 1. A Young Man's Exhortation
2. No. 2. Ditty
3. No. 3. Budmouth Dears
4. No. 4. Her Temple
5. No. 5. The Comet at Yell'ham
6. No. 6. Shortening Days
7. No. 7. The Sigh
8. No. 8. Former Beauties
9. No. 9. Transformations
10. No. 10. The dance continued
Till Earth Outwears, Op. 19
11. No. 1. Let me enjoy the earth
12. No. 2. In years defaced
13. No. 3. The Market Girl
14. No. 4. I look into my glass
15. No. 5. It never looks like summer here
16. No. 6. At a Lunar Eclipse
17. No. 7. Life laughs onwards
Oh Fair to See, Op. 13
18. No. 1. I say 'I'll seek her side'
19. No. 2. Oh fair to see
20. No. 3. As I lay in the early sun
21. No. 4. Only the wanderer
22. No. 5. To Joy
23. No. 6. Harvest
24. No. 7. Since we loved