The music of English composer Gerald Finzi, who flourished between the 1920s and 1950s, follows in the pastoral tradition of Vaughan Williams. Finzi is primarily known for his extraordinarily fine ear for text setting, but he also produced a small but attractive body of orchestral works. While his music is romantic in its harmonic language and its lyric sweep, his works often have an underlying classical structure. The pieces on this CD span his career; his Concerto for small orchestra and violin (1925-1927) was his first ...
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The music of English composer Gerald Finzi, who flourished between the 1920s and 1950s, follows in the pastoral tradition of Vaughan Williams. Finzi is primarily known for his extraordinarily fine ear for text setting, but he also produced a small but attractive body of orchestral works. While his music is romantic in its harmonic language and its lyric sweep, his works often have an underlying classical structure. The pieces on this CD span his career; his Concerto for small orchestra and violin (1925-1927) was his first important orchestral work and the Cello Concerto (1955) was his last. The Concerto for small orchestra and violin merges a romantic sensibility with a Baroque attention to contrapuntal development, and the work has an attractive straightforwardness and clarity. Its slow movement (as well as that of the Cello Concerto) is especially appealing in its song-like simplicity. Tasmin Little makes the solo lines soar. The Cello Concerto, a very substantial piece lasting 40 minutes, is broadly...
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