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John Mark Ainsley, Corydon Singers, Matthew Best - Finzi: Dies natalis & Intimations of Immortality (2023)

John Mark Ainsley, Corydon Singers, Matthew Best - Finzi: Dies natalis & Intimations of Immortality (2023)
  • Title: Finzi: Dies natalis & Intimations of Immortality
  • Year Of Release: 1996 / 2023
  • Label: Hyperion
  • Genre: Classical
  • Quality: FLAC (tracks + booklet)
  • Total Time: 1:06:57
  • Total Size: 253 MB
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Tracklist:

1. Matthew Best – Finzi: Dies natalis, Op. 8: I. Intrada (05:08)
2. Corydon Orchestra – Finzi: Dies natalis, Op. 8: II. Rhapsody. Recitativo stromentato (06:33)
3. Corydon Orchestra – Finzi: Dies natalis, Op. 8: III. The Rapture. Danza (03:38)
4. Corydon Orchestra – Finzi: Dies natalis, Op. 8: IV. Wonder. Arioso (04:25)
5. Corydon Orchestra – Finzi: Dies natalis, Op. 8: V. The Salutation. Aria (04:48)
6. Corydon Orchestra – Finzi: Intimations of Immortality, Op. 29: I. Andante sostenuto (05:17)
7. Corydon Orchestra – Finzi: Intimations of Immortality, Op. 29: II. There Was a Time When Meadow, Grove, and Stream (03:25)
8. John Mark Ainsley – Finzi: Intimations of Immortality, Op. 29: III. The Rainbow Comes and Goes (02:27)
9. Corydon Orchestra – Finzi: Intimations of Immortality, Op. 29: IV. Now, While the Birds Thus Sing a Joyous Song (04:21)
10. Corydon Orchestra – Finzi: Intimations of Immortality, Op. 29: V. Ye Blessèd Creatures, I Have Heard the Call (00:57)
11. Corydon Orchestra – Finzi: Intimations of Immortality, Op. 29: VI. Oh Evil Day! If I Were Sullen (02:09)
12. Corydon Orchestra – Finzi: Intimations of Immortality, Op. 29: VII. – But There's a Tree, of Many, One (02:27)
13. Corydon Orchestra – Finzi: Intimations of Immortality, Op. 29: VIII. Our Birth Is But a-Sleep and a-Forgetting (03:41)
14. Corydon Orchestra – Finzi: Intimations of Immortality, Op. 29: IX. Earth Fills Her Lap with Pleasures of Her Own (01:49)
15. Corydon Orchestra – Finzi: Intimations of Immortality, Op. 29: X. O Joy! That in Our Embers (03:05)
16. John Mark Ainsley – Finzi: Intimations of Immortality, Op. 29: XI. But for Those First Affections (04:09)
17. Matthew Best – Finzi: Intimations of Immortality, Op. 29: XII. Then Sing, Ye Birds, Sing, Sing a Joyous Song! (03:56)
18. John Mark Ainsley – Finzi: Intimations of Immortality, Op. 29: XIII. And O, Ye Fountains, Meadows, Hills, and Groves (04:32)

This album brings together two of Finzi’s most characteristic works. Dies natalis, a setting of prose and verse by the seventeenth-century metaphysical poet Thomas Traherne, is a piece of sublime concord and timelessness, music which vividly suggests the vision of a child’s innocence and unsullied perception of the world which lies at the heart of Traherne’s philosophy. Intimations of Immortality is by contrast a lament for the lost joys of Traherne’s idealized childhood. Finzi uses Wordsworth’s famous ode to convey his view that ‘a dead poet lives in many a live stockbroker’ and the result is a work of arresting beauty.


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