Flowers of the Field

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this is an unusual and moving programme...[Finzi's] Masefield and Hardy settings, less mature than Dies Natalis, remained unperformed in his lifetime, but Davan Wetton and excellent soloists... — BBC Music Magazine, January 2015, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 3rd Nov 2014
Catalogue No: 8573426
Label: Naxos
Length: 60 minutes

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Butterworth, G: A Shropshire Lad - Rhapsody

Work length10:20

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$5.25

London Mozart Players
Hilary Davan Wetton

Finzi: Requiem da Camera

Work length22:16

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$6.50

$8.75

Natasha Harbinson, Roderick Williams, Emily Tidbury, David Bagnall
London Mozart Players, City of London Choir
Hilary Davan Wetton

I. Prelude

Track length5:14

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II. How Still This Quiet Cornfield Is To-Night

Track length9:12

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III. Only a Man Harrowing Clods

Track length3:33

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IV. We Who Are Left

Track length4:17

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Gurney: The Trumpet

Work length5:37

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$1.75

City of London Choir, London Mozart Players
Hilary Davan Wetton

Vaughan Williams: An Oxford Elegy

Work length21:53

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Jeremy Irons
City of London Choir, London Mozart Players
Hilary Davan Wetton

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These composers were all affected by the carnage of World War I, and their elegiac music expresses regret and lost innocence, love won and lost, sacrifice and death. George Butterworth’s A Shropshire Lad, conceived as an epilogue to his Housman song cycles, encapsulates the poet’s sense of life’s transience. Ivor Gurney was both shot and gassed in 1917, and The Trumpet pleads with mankind to set aside the folly of war. Heard here in a new completion, Gerald Finzi’s Requiem da Camera mourns the death of his mentor

Ernest Farrar and those of other fallen artists, and Ralph Vaughan Williams’s An Oxford Elegy recalls lost friends with an intense and magical nostalgia.

Reviews

January 2015

this is an unusual and moving programme...[Finzi's] Masefield and Hardy settings, less mature than Dies Natalis, remained unperformed in his lifetime, but Davan Wetton and excellent soloists Roderick Williams find real depth in them...An Oxford Elegy, though, is the major work here.

8th November 2014

To mark Remembrance Day this disc collects works by English composers affected by the first world war. Unlike their compatriot poets, the composers responded with uniformly elegiac feelings.

January 2015

Irons makes an understated reader for An Oxford Elegy...He is deftly supported by the London Mozart Players, whose wind solos throughout the disc are especially fine. The only blot on this pastoral landscape are the chorus, who lack the vocal youth and energy so crucial to this collection of young men's music.

29th October 2014

this version [of the Requiem da Camera], intelligently paced by Hilary Davan Wetton with Roderick Williams as the matchless baritone soloist, is a significant addition to the Finzi catalogue...it’s the Finzi especially that makes the disc so worthwhile.

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