Finzi: Intimations of Immortality; For St. Cecilia
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Composer: Gerald FinziConductor: David Hill
Orchestra: Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra
Performer: James Gilchrist
Edition: Music CD
Audio: English (Original Language)
CD Release Date: 2006-05-16
Music Label: Naxos
Soundtracks:
- Andante Sostenuto
- There Was A Time When Meadow, Grove And Stream
- The Rainbow Comes And Goes
- Now, While The Birds Thus Sing A Joyous Song
- Ye Blessed Creatures, I Have Heard The Call
- Oh Evil Day! If I Were Sullen
- But There's A Tree, Of Many, One
- Our Birth Is But A Sleep And A Forgetting
- Earth Fills Her Lap With Pleasures Of Her Own
- O Joy! That In Our Embers
- But For Those First Affections
- Then Sing, Ye Birds, Sing, Sing A Joyous Song!
- And O, Ye Fountains, Meadows, Hills, And Groves
- Delightful Goddess, In Whose Fashionings
- Changed Is The Age; Mysterious, Man's Next Star
- How Came You, Lady Of Fierce Martyrdom
- How Smilingly The Saint Among Her Friends
- Wherefore We Bid You To The Full Concent
Music reviews of Finzi: Intimations of Immortality; For St. Cecilia
Music Review: A Major but Rarely-Heard Finzi Work
Rating: 4 Stars
Much as I like the music of Gerald Finzi (1901-1956) I had never heard his largest work -- the longest at any rate, at almost forty minutes -- 'Intimations of Immortality' for tenor, chorus and orchestra. Based of course on Wordsworth's poem that sings of the instinctual freshness and sensitivity of childhood and laments its passing when one passes into adulthood, it is a heartfelt work from Finzi whose own childhood and youth were painful, lonely and tragic, and whose escape into music and literature set his course in adulthood, an attempt to keep that child's responsiveness alive in himself. Finzi set nine of the eleven stanzas of the Wordsworth poem -- VII and VIII are omitted -- with orchestral interludes between each of them, and it took him almost twenty years to complete, interrupted as it was by the horror of the Second World War. He finished it in 1950. The central theme of the poem (in IV) -- 'Whither is fled the visionary gleam? Where is it now, the glory and the dream?' -- is set to somber tones and is ultimately answered by the 'intimations of immortality' in IX and X -- 'O joy! that in our embers / is something that doth live ... in the faith that looks through death.' Clearly this is a deeply personal work for Finzi.
Tenor James Gilchrist and the Bournemouth Symphony Chorus provide appropriate musical expression for Finzi's setting of the alternately troubled, rapt or joyous discourse of Wordsworth's poem. The Bournemouth Symphony is its usual expert self under the direction of David Hill.
The CD is filled out with a performance of Finzi's setting of a 'Ceremonial Ode' by Edmund Blunden, 'For Saint Cecilia' written specifically for a celebration of St. Cecilia's Day in 1947. Although there is some enjoyable ceremonial music here, particularly in the use of Waltonian fanfare motifs, this is public and rather impersonal music that, for me, doesn't particularly warrant frequent hearing although it is expertly done here.
Scott Morrison
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