Vocal, Finzi (composer)
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Gramophone Magazine, May 2005, Editor's Choice
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Shakespeare Songs
RecommendedIan Bostridge (tenor), Antonio Pappano (piano), Elizabeth Kenny (lute), Adam Walker (flute), Lawrence Power (viola), Michael Collins (clarinet)
Five songs from Finzi’s incomparable Let us Garlands Bring see the tenor’s head voice floating sympathetically through the melismatic vowels and ever-shifting metres of Finzi’s most sensitive... —
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Gramophone Magazine, October 2016, Editor's Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2016
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ECHO Klassik Awards, 2017, Winner
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Grammy Awards, 59th Awards (2016), Best Classical Solo Vocal Album
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As so often, Finzi's word-setting is wonderful - a gift to any singer with a feeling for words as well as notes. James Gilchrist plainly enjoys both aspects of this work. His phrasing is typically... —
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Building a Library, June 2018, Recommended Recording
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British Music Collection - Gerald Finzi
RecommendedBryn Terfel, Philip Langridge, Donald Sweeney, Benjamin Luxon
Choir of Winchester Cathedral, Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, London Symphony Orchestra & Chorus, David Hill, Richard Hickox, Edward Higginbottom, Neville Marriner
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Building a Library, December 2006, First Choice
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You would have to look hard for a better introduction to Finzi… The songs are the core of his achievement… Roderick Williams's elegant and delicate performances reveal the heart of this music... —
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BBC Music Magazine, June 2005, Choral & Song Choice
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The English Song Series Volume 15 - Finzi 2
RecommendedRoderick Williams (baritone) & Iain Burnside (piano)
Sacconi Quartet
Roderick Williams… is an intensely musical singer, acutely responsive to the sound and meaning of words, but also his approach to the English Romantic song repertoire is… revelatory. …Williams…... —
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Building a Library, December 2006, First Choice
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A sense of the mannered or precious can debase these songs; Keenlyside's sweeping, robust lyricism is deceptively effortless and exactly right...Dr Johnson once said that every man thinks worse... —
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Gramophone Awards, 2012, Winner - Solo Vocal
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Sherratt possesses that rare gift – a genuine bass voice that carries its lyrical, expressive clarity from its ringing high notes right down to a full-toned basso profundo delivered without... —
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Gramophone Awards, 2024 Shortlist, Shortlisted - Song
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalists 2024
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Finzi: Violin Concerto, etc.
RecommendedTasmin Little (violin), John Mark Ainsley (tenor)
City of London Sinfonia, Richard Hickox
Finzi began work on his Concerto for small orchestra and solo violin in 1925, dedicating it to Sybil Eaton, a talented young violinist and the object of the 24-year-old composer's unrequited... —
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Building a Library, December 2006, First Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, May 2001, Editor's Choice
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Finzi: Love's Labours Lost, Let Us Garlands Bring & other works
Jane Manning (soprano) & John Noble (baritone), John Carol Case (baritone), Ian Partridge (tenor)
John Alldis Choir & New Philharmonia Orchestra, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Vernon Handley
