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GERALD FINZI
FINAL SACRIFICE
8508017 | 747313801732
8 CD | SRP
US
$49.99
CA
$59.99
COMPOSER: Gerald Finzi
ARTIST: Various
· More than any other composer, Gerald
Finzi (1901-1956) has come to embody
the lyrical pastoralism so associated
with English twentieth-century music.
This anthology includes eight critically
acclaimed recordings of Finzi's works.
The themes of fragility and transient
existence are expressed in three
early song anthologies with words by
Thomas Hardy, Finzi's favourite poet.
Intimations of Immortality is a deeply
touching lament for the passing of
the freshness of childhood, while the
tender Dies natalis is a setting of texts
by the 17th century poet Thomas
Traherne. Lo, the Full, Final Sacrifice
takes the listener through a feast of
moods and textures and ends with
one of the most sublime Amens in all
choral music. Finzi's