For the first time, the lovely songs of British composer Gerald Finzi (1901-1956) are collected together in one volume, in two keys. This new collection also includes some first time transpositions.
Contents
I SAID TO LOVE: I need no go
At Middle-Field Gate in February
Two Lips
In five-score summers!
For Life I had never cared greatly
I said to Love LET US GARLANDS BRING: Come away, come away, death
Who is Sylvia?
Fear no more the heat o' the sun
O Mistress Mine
It was a lover and his lass LOVE'S LABOUR'S LOST: Songs for Hiems and Ver
Songs for Moth: Riddle Song
False Concolinel OH FAIR TO SEE: I say, “I'll seek her”
Oh fair to see
As I lay in the early sun
Only the wanderer
To Joy
Harvest
Since we loved TILL EARTH OUTWEARS: Let me enjoy the earth
In years defaced
The Market-Girl
I look into my glass
It never looks like summer
At a Lunar Eclipse
Life Laughs Onward TO A POET: To a Poet a Thousand Years Hence
On parent knees
Intrada
The Birthnight
June on Castle Hill
Ode on the rejection of St. Cecelia A YOUNG MAN'S EXHORTATION: PART I: A Young Man's Exhortation