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Gerald Finzi: Earth and Air and Rain, Op. 15
No. 1. Summer Schemes
No. 2. When I Set Out for Lyonesse
No. 3. Waiting Both
No. 4. The Phantom
No. 5. So I Have Fared
No. 6. Rollicum-Rorum
No. 7. To Lizbie Browne
No. 8. The Clock of the Years
No. 9. In a Churchyard
No. 10. Proud Songsters
Gerald Finzi: To a Poet, Op. 13a
No. 1. To a Poet a Thousand Years Hence
No. 2. On Parent Knees
No. 3. Intrada
No. 4. The Birthnight
No. 5. June on Castle Hill
No. 6. Ode on the Rejection of St Cecilia
Gerald Finzi: By Footpath and Stile, Op. 2
No. 1. Paying Calls
No. 2. Where the Picnic Was
No. 3. The Oxen
No. 4. The Master and the Leaves
No. 5. Voices from Things Growing in a Churchyard
No. 6. Exeunt Omnes
September 2006
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“Roderick Williams… is an intensely musical singer, acutely responsive to the sound and meaning of words, but also his approach to the English Romantic song repertoire is… revelatory. …Williams… is a rich variety. In lyrical numbers like 'Lizbie Browne' the melodic and emotional unfolding is sustained beautifully without smoothing over the subtler nuances of Hardy's words of Finzi's setting. ...pianist Iain Burnside is just about ideal as a musical partner, his playing full of vitality and wistful tenderness.”
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