Tuesday, June 14, 2022

TDCM: June 14th - Gerald Finzi

 

Listening Through The Dictionary of Composers and Their Music 


Gerald Finzi (1901-1956)


Bio

Finzi was born in London and studied under Ernest Farrar at Christ Church, High Harrogate. He met Holst, Bliss, and Vaughan Williams and owed his Royal Academy teaching position to the latter. He moved around England and gained some notoriety but his life was cut short by Hodgkin's disease. 

Music

Nocturne


Love's Labour's Lost


Clarinet Concerto


Cello Concerto


Romance in E flat major


Intimations of Immortality


Eclogue


In Terra Pax



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