Finzi / Williams / Burnside / Sacconi Quartet Earth & Air & Rain CD

Gerald Finzi made an unrivalled contribution to British twentieth-century song-writing, especially in his settings of Thomas Hardy, his favourite poet. This second volume of Finzi songs includes two Hardy collections, the early By Footpath and Stile.

1. Summer Schemes 2. When I Set Out for Lyonesse 3. Waiting Both 4. The Phantom 5. So I Have Fared 6. Rollicum-Rorum 7. To Lizbie Browne 8. The Clock of the Years 9. In a Churchyard 10. Proud Songsters 11. To a Poet a Thousand Years Hence 12. On Parent Knees 13. Intrada 14. The Birthnight 15. June on Castle Hill 16. Ode on the Rejection of St. Cecilia 17. Paying Calls 18. Where the Picnic Was 19. The Oxen 20. The Master and the Leaves 21. Voices from Things Growing in a Churchyard 22. Exeunt Omnes