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A superb follow-up to the critically-acclaimed collaboration between James Gilchrist and the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra under David Hill on the Naxos CD "Intimations of Immortality/For St Cecilia", "Dies Natalis/Farewell to Arms/Two Sonnets" depicts Gerald Finzi in elegiac mode.
Quintessentially Finzi, the tender yet radiant Dies natalis, a setting of texts by the 17th-century poet Thomas Traherne, depicts both the first sensations of a child as it enters the world, and life’s tarnishing experience of the innocence of childhood.
In Farewell to Arms, a further example of Finzi’s enthusiasm for 17th-century poets, the steady but inevitable tramp of time, symbolized by the measured bass and the tenor’s sad, arching melody, becomes a poignant symbol for the brevity of life as expressed in lines such as ‘O time too swift, O swiftness never ceasing’. Finzi knew all too well that ‘Beauty, strength, youth are flowers but fading seen’.
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