Finzi: Dies Natalis; Romance for Strings
Copy at Case Memorial Library
Contents: Gerald Finzi: Romance for string orchestra, op. 11; Dies Natalis, op. 8: Intrada, Rhapsody (Recitativo stromentato), The Rapture (Danza), Wonder (Arioso), The Salutation (Aria); William Walton: Sonata for string orchestra (1972). Recorded live at Wigmore Hall, London, 13 October 2007.
Personnel: Scottish Ensemble, Jonathan Morton, artistic director; Toby Spence, tenor.
Gerald Larner writes in the accompanying booklet: "[W]hile the Intrada could be interpreted as [a] loving tribute to the West Country, the rest of Dies Natalis transcends the contemplation of a favourite landscape to reflect a vision of nature seen in enchanted innocence by the eyes of a child unaware of sin and untainted by cynicism. Based on the writings of the seventeenth-century metaphysical poet Thomas Traherne — whose major works, the Poems and the prose Centuries of Meditation, were discovered only at the end of the nineteenth century — the four vocal movements were assembled over a period of more than a dozen years" (pp. 3-4).
Contents: Gerald Finzi: Romance for string orchestra, op. 11; Dies Natalis, op. 8: Intrada, Rhapsody (Recitativo stromentato), The Rapture (Danza), Wonder (Arioso), The Salutation (Aria); William Walton: Sonata for string orchestra (1972). Recorded live at Wigmore Hall, London, 13 October 2007.
Personnel: Scottish Ensemble, Jonathan Morton, artistic director; Toby Spence, tenor.
Gerald Larner writes in the accompanying booklet: "[W]hile the Intrada could be interpreted as [a] loving tribute to the West Country, the rest of Dies Natalis transcends the contemplation of a favourite landscape to reflect a vision of nature seen in enchanted innocence by the eyes of a child unaware of sin and untainted by cynicism. Based on the writings of the seventeenth-century metaphysical poet Thomas Traherne — whose major works, the Poems and the prose Centuries of Meditation, were discovered only at the end of the nineteenth century — the four vocal movements were assembled over a period of more than a dozen years" (pp. 3-4).
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