Finzi: Choral Music
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GERALD FINZI
Finzi: Choral Music
Philip Langridge (tenor), London Symphony Orchestra, London Symphony Chorus Richard Hickox / The RIchard Hickox Singers / Exultate Singers
[ Decca Australian Eloquence / 2 CD ]
Release Date: Wednesday 10 July 2019
Finzi - more master of the small-scale than the large-scale - had a fine ear for poetry and a great sensitivity in his verse settings. In 1978 and 1979 Richard Hickox made two LPs for Argo of (mainly) choral music by Gerald Finzi. Never issued in their entirety, they appear here complete on a 2CD set filled out with a further L'Oiseau-Lyre LP of music for a cappella chorus and choir with organ, recorded by Garrett O'Brien and his Exultate Singers in London's Southwark Cathedral in 1979. This 2CD set presents two versions - choir/orchestra and choir/organ - of two of Finzi's most substantial single-movement choral works: the Festival anthem Lo, the full final sacrifice and the Magnificat.
"Richard Hickox, his singers and players are excellent" Gramophone
"The Exultate Singers are an admirable group of 16 voices, with firm tone and excellent chording. Their words, moreover, are as clear as choral words can be" Gramophone
"Philip Langridge … very good in Dies Natalis … is a most intelligent singer… Langridge and Richard Hickox have an excellent rapport that carries the music along most convincingly" Gramophone
Tracks:
Introit
For St Cecilia, Op. 30
Dies natalis, Op. 8
In terra pax, Op. 39
Magnificat, Op. 36
Lo, the Full, Final Sacrifice, Op. 26
Seven Part-songs, Op.17
Three Anthems, Op.27
Three Short Elegies Op. 5
All this night Op. 33
Lo, the Full, Final Sacrifice, Op. 26
Magnificat, Op. 36
