Gerald Finzi: Earth and air and rain; Songs by Gerald Finzi to words by Thomas Hardy / Martyn Hill / Stephen Varcoe / Clifford Benson
Disc 1
Earth and Air and Rain, op.15 (30:32)
1 - Summer Schemes 2:29
2 - When I set out for Lyonnesse 2:02
3 - Waiting Both 3:12
4 - The Phantom 3:18
5 - So I have fared 2:29
6 - Rollicum-rorum 1:32
7 - To Lizbie Browne 4:21
8 - The Clock of the Years 3:55
9 - In a Churchyard 3:19
10- Proud Songsters 3:03
Till Earth outwears, Op.19a (16:27)
11- Let me enjoy the earth 2:07
12- In years defaced 3:23
13- The Market-Girl 1:35
14- I look into my glass 2:05
15- It never looks like summer here 1:08
16- At a lunar eclipse 3:33
17- Life Laughs Onward 2:00
I Said to Love, Op.19b (12:58)
18- I need not go 1:34
19- At Middle-Field Gate in February 3:25
20- Two Lips 0:50
21- In five-score summers 1:36
22- For Life I had never cared greatly 2:07
23- I said to Love 3:01
Disc 2
A Young Man's Exhortation, Op.14 (28:53)
1 - A Young Man's Exhortation 3:11
2 - Ditty 2:52
3 - Budmouth Dears 1:34
4 - Her Temple l:58
5 - The Comet at Yell'ham 3:17
6 - Shortening Days 3:07
7 - The Sigh 3:47
8 - Former Beauties 3:03
9 - Transformations 1:24
10- The Dance Continued 3:58
Before and After Summer, Op.16 (31:06)
11- Childhood among the Ferns 3:19
12- Before and After Summer 2:29
13- The Self-Unseeing 2:30
14- Overlooking the River 2:24
15- Channel Firing 6:05
16- In the Mind's Eye 1:46
17- The Too Short Time 2:53
18- Epeisodia 1:59
19- Amabel 2:45
20- He Abjures Love 4:09
Martyn Hill, tenor
Stephen Varcoe, baritone
Clifford Benson, piano
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