Gerald Finzi: Dies Natalis & Intimations (Hyperion Audio CD)

Hyperion Finzi CD Finzi: Dies Natalis & Intimations

John Mark Ainsley (tenor), Corydon Singers, Matthew Best (conductor)

CDA66876

Recording details: February 1996
All Hallows, Gospel Oak, London, United Kingdom
Produced by Mark Brown
Engineered by Antony Howell & Julian Millard
Release date: October 1996
Total duration: 66 minutes 20 seconds

Track listing
Dies natalis, Op 8 (Finzi)
CD1 1 Movement 1: Intrada 5:01
2 Movement 2: Rhapsody. Recitativo stromentato 6:31
3 Movement 3: The Rapture. Danza 3:35
4 Movement 4: Wonder. Arioso 4:23
5 Movement 5: The Salutation. Aria 4:37

Intimations of Immortality, Op 29 (Finzi)
6 Movement 01: Andante sostenuto 5:18
7 Movement 02: There was a time when meadow, grove, and stream 3:25
8 Movement 03: The Rainbow comes and goes 2:28
9 Movement 04: Now, while the birds thus sing a joyous song 4:22
10 Movement 05: Ye blessèd Creatures, I have heard the call 0:58
11 Movement 06: Oh evil day! if I were sullen 2:09
12 Movement 07: – But there's a Tree, of many, one 2:28
13 Movement 08: Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting 3:42
14 Movement 09: Earth fills her lap with pleasures of her own 1:49
15 Movement 10: O joy! that in our embers 3:06
16 Movement 11: But for those first affections 4:09
17 Movement 12: Then sing, ye Birds, sing a joyous song! 3:56
18 Movement 13: And O, ye fountains, Meadows, Hills, and Groves 4:23