Gerald Finzi (1901-1956)
50th Anniversary Concert
A concert programme celebrating the choral works of composer Gerald Finzi, his contemporaries and composers whom he championed. These works, sacred and secular, are set to words by celebrated British poets including contemporaries of the featured composers. The programme includes:The Twelve; first performed in Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford (1965), composed by William Walton the music of whom Finzi admired greatly and finishes with Finzi's magnificent and well loved festival anthem "Lo the full final sacrifice."
'God's Grandeur'
Kenneth Leighton (1929-1988)
Words G. Manley Hopkins
'3 Short Drummond Elegies' Op. 5
Gerald Finzi (1901-1956)
Words William Drummond
'Three Shakespeare Songs'
Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958)
Words William Shakespeare
'Master Tallis' Testament'
(Organ)
Herbert Howells (1892-1983)
'Seven Partsongs' Op.17
Gerald Finzi (1901-1956)
Words Robert Bridges
Interval
'The Twelve'
William Walton (1902-1983)
Words W.H.Auden
'A Hymn for St. Cecilia'
Herbert Howells (1892-1983)
Words Ursula Vaughan Williams
'There is an old belief'
C. Hubert H. Parry (1884-1918)
(from Songs of Farewell)
Words John Gibson Lockhart
Chorale Prelude on Croft's 138th
(Organ)
C. Hubert H. Parry (1884-1918)
'Lo the full final sacrifice' Op. 26
Gerald Finzi (1901-1956)
Words Richard Crashaw
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