Gerald Finzi: Let Us Garlands Bring: Baritone: Vocal Album

Five Shakespeare Songs Opus 15-A highly attractive cycle of Shakespeare texts dealing with love and the passing of time as set for Voice and Piano by one of the finest British composers of vocal music of his time Gerald Finzi.This work was composed from 1929 to 1042. The first performance was given on 12 October 1942 at the National Gallery London by Robert Irwin (baritone) and Howard Ferguson (piano).

54 LiederContent : BEFORE AND AFTER SUMMER: Childhood among the Ferns - Before and after Summer - The Self-unseeing - Overlooking the River - Channel Firing - In the Mind's Eye - The Too Short Time - Epeisodia - Amabel - He Abjures LoveEARTH AND AIR AND RAIN: Summer Schemes - When I set out for Lyonnesse - Waiting for Both - The Phantom - So I have fared - Rollicum-Rorum - To Lizbie - The Clock of the Years - In a Churchyard - Proud SongstersI SAID TO LOVE:I need not 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 lassLOVE'S LABOUR'S LOST:Songs for Heims and Ver (Song for Moth) - Riddle Song - False ColcolinelOH 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 lovedTILL 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 OnwardTO 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