List of compositions by Gerald Finzi
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Songs to poems by Christina Rossetti
- Scored for unison and two-part voices and piano
- Songs: 1. “Rosy Maiden Winifred”; 2. “Dead in the Cold”; 3. “Lullaby, Oh Lullaby!”; 4. “The Lily Has a Smooth Stalk”; 5. “Dancing on the Hill-tops”; 6. “Margaret Has a Milking Pail”; 7. “Ferry Me Across the Water”; 8. “There’s Snow on the Fields”; 9. “A Linnet in a Gilded Cage”; 10. “Boy Johnny”
- A cycle of six songs scored for baritone soloist and string quartet
- Setting of poems by English poet Thomas Hardy; songs: 1. “Paying Call”; 2. “Where the Picnic Was”; 3. “The Oxen”; 4. “The Master and the Leaves”; 5. “Voices from Things Growing in a Churchyard”; 6. “Exeunt Omnes”
No. 1 – A Severn Rhapsody
No. 2 – Requiem da camera
- A Severn Rhapsody is a brief orchestral work
- Four-movement Requiem da camera scored for baritone soloist, chorus (or SATB solo voices) and orchestra; movements: 1. “Prelude”; 2. “From ‘August 1914′” (setting of John Masefield poem); 3. “In the time of the breaking of nations” (Setting of Thomas Hardy poem); 4. “Lament” (Setting of Gibson poem)
- Scored for a cappella mixed SATB choir
- Setting for unaccompanied chorus of three texts by Scottish poet William Drummond: 1. “Life a right shadow is”; 2. “This world a hunting is”; 3. “This life, which seems so fair” [2]
1928
- written originally as the second movement of a completed violin concerto for Sybil Eaton, a gifted violinist with whom Finzi was infatuated; entire concerto published posthumously
- second and third movements of concerto premiered May 1927 under Malcolm Sargent with Eaton as soloist
- completed concerto premiered in 1928 in London under Ralph Vaughan Williams. Finzi was not satisfied with it and withdrew the first and third movements.
- Scored for soprano or tenor soloist and string orchestra
- Setting of four texts from metaphysical poet and theologian Thomas Traherne (1636/37–1674)
- Movements: 1. “Intrada” (strings only); 2. “Rhapsody” (Recitativo Stromentato); 3. “The Rapture” (Danza); 4. “Wonder” (Arioso); 5. “The Salutation” (Aria)
- Work intended as a piano concerto that remained unfinished; named posthumously by publisher
No. 1 “When I consider how my life is spent”
No. 2 “How soon hath Time”
- Six songs scored for “low voice” and piano; 1. “To a Poet a thousand years hence”; 2. “On parent knees”; 3. “Intrada”; 4. “The Birthnight”; 5. “June on Castle Hill”; 6. “Ode on the rejection of Saint Cecilia”
- Seven songs for “high voice” and piano; 1. “I say I’ll Seek Her”; 2. “Oh fair to see”; 3. “As I lay in the early sun”; 4. “Only the wanderer”; 5. “To Joy”; 6. “Harvest”; 7. “Since we loved”
- Ten songs, scored for tenor and piano
- Song cycle of poems by English poet Thomas Hardy
- Songs: Part I – 1. ‘A Young Man’s Exhortation’, 2. ‘Ditty’,
3. ‘Budmouth Dears’, 4. ‘Her Temple’, 5. ‘The Comet at Yelham’; Part II – 6. ‘Shortening Days’, 7. ‘The Sigh’, 8. ‘Former Beauties’, 9. ‘Transformations’ 10. ‘The Dance Continued’
- Scored for baritone soloist and piano
- Song cycle of ten songs from poems by English poet Thomas Hardy; Songs: 1. ‘Summer Schemes’, 2. ‘When I set out for Lyonnesse’, 3. ‘Waiting Both’, 4. ‘The Phantom’, 5. ‘So I have fared’, 6. ‘Rollicum-rorum’, 7. ‘To Lizbie Browne’, 8. ‘The Clock of the Years’, 9. ‘In a Churchyard’, 10. ‘Proud Songsters’
- Ten songs for baritone and piano, with words by Thomas Hardy; songs:1. ‘Childhood among the ferns’
2. ‘Before and after summer’, 3. ‘The Self-Unseeing’, 4. ‘Overlooking the River’, 5. ‘Channel Firing’, 6. ‘In the Mind’s Eye’, 7. ‘The Too Short Time’, 8. ‘Epeisodia’, 9. ‘Amabel’, 10. ‘He abjures love’
No. 1: “I praise the tender flower”
No. 2: “I have loved flowers that fade”
No. 3: “My spirit sang all day”
No. 4: “Clear and gentle stream”
No. 5: “Nightingales”
No. 6: “Haste on, my joys!”
No. 7: “Wherefore tonight so full of care
1. “Come away death”
2. “Who is Silvia?”
3. “Fear no more the heat o’ the Sun”
4. “Oh mistress mine”
5. “It was a lover and his lass”
- Seven songs for high voice and piano, with words by Thomas Hardy; songs: 1. ‘Let me enjoy the earth’,
2. ‘In years defaced’, 3. ‘The Market-Girl’, 4. ‘I look into my glass’, 5. ‘It never looks like summer here’, 6. ‘At a Lunar Eclipse’, 7. ‘Life laughs onward’
- Six songs for baritone and piano, with words by Thomas Hardy; song: 1. ‘I need not go’, 2. ‘At Middle-field Gate in February’, 3. ‘Two Lips’, 4. ‘In five-score summers’, 5. ‘For life I had never cared greatly’, 6. ‘I said to Love’
- Scored for Oboe, 2 violins, viola, cello
- Finzi dedicated the work to British oboist Léon Goossens (1897–1988)
- Finzi also made a version for oboe and string orchestra, adding a double bass part
- Scored for clarinet and piano
- An arrangement orchestrated by Lawrence Ashmore is catalogued as Op. 23a.
- Movements: 1. ‘Prelude’, 2. ‘Romance’, 3. ‘Carol’, 4. ‘Forlana’, 5. ‘Fughetta’
No. 1: “My lovely one”
No. 2: “God is gone up”
No. 3: “Welcome sweet and sacred feast”
1951
1953
- Four songs to accompany Shakespeare’s comedy; 1. “When daisies pied” (Song of Ver); 2. “When icicles hang by the wall” (Song of Hiems); 3. “If she be made of white or red”; 4. “Is it not sure a deadly pain” (False Concolinel – anon.)
- Ten movement suite scored “for small orchestra” arranged from the incidental music of Op. 28a
- Movements: 1. Introduction; 2. Moth; 3. Nocturne; 4. The Hunt; 5. Dance; 6. Quodlibet; 7. Soliloquy I; 8. Soliloquy II; 9. Soliloquy III; 10. Finale
- For tenor, chorus and orchestra
- Setting of a work by English poet and author Edmund Blunden
- Commissioned by the St Cecilia’s Day Festival Committee for the 1947 celebration of music’s patron saint
- Setting of a poem by Robert Bridges for three-part choir (TTB)
- An unaccompanied choral motet
- A unison song with strings
- Scoring: Two-part choral song with strings and piano
- Setting, for a cappella chorus, of a poem by Edmund Blunden
- Work was Finzi’s contribution to A Garland for the Queen, a collection of part songs by English composers celebrating the coronation of Elizabeth II
- For piano and orchestra
- Thought to be intended as an unfinished piano concerto, named posthumously by publisher
- A “Christmas Scene” scored for soprano and baritone soloists, chorus, strings, harp and cymbal
- Setting of texts from English poet Robert Bridges and the Gospel of Luke
- Scored for cello soloist and orchestra
- Work is in three movements: I. Allegro moderato, II. Andante quieto, III. Rondo: Adagio—Allegro giocoso
- Withdrawn concerto from which Introit Op. 6, emerged as a stand-alone piece; published posthumously
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