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Offer,Finzi - Earth and Air and Rain

Five song cycles to words by Thomas Hardy

Clifford Benson (piano), sung by Stephen Varcoe, sung by Martyn Hill

The welcome return of what now seem rather special archive recordings of Finzi's great Hardy settings. Direct, unselfconscious and ever-sentient performances. — BBC Music Magazine, September 2009, 4 out of 5 stars
  • Release Date: 27th Jul 2009
  • Catalogue No: CDD22070
  • Label: Hyperion
  • Series: Dyads
  • Length: 1 hour 59 minutes

2 CDs

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Contents

Finzi: Earth and Air and Rain, Op. 15

Work length30:29
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  • Stephen Varcoe (baritone), Clifford Benson (piano)

I. Summer Schemes

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II. When I set out for Lyonnesse

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III. Waiting Both

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IV. The Phantom

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V. So I have fared

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VI. Rollicum-rorum

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VII. To Lizbie Browne

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VIII. The Clock of the Years

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IX. In a Churchyard

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X. Proud Songsters

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Finzi: Till Earth outwears, Op 19a

Work length16:24
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  • Martyn Hill (tenor), Clifford Benson (piano)

I. Let me enjoy the earth

Track length2:11
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II. In years defaced

Track length3:26
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III. The Market-Girl

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IV. I look into my glass

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V. It never looks like summer here

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VI. At a lunar eclipse

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VII. Life Laughs Onward

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Finzi: I Said to Love, Op. 19b

Work length12:57
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  • Stephen Varcoe (baritone), Clifford Benson (piano)

I. I need not go

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II. At Middle-Field Gate in February

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III. Two Lips

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IV. In five-score summers

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V. For Life I had never cared greatly

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VI. I said to Love

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Finzi: A Young Man's Exhortation, Op. 14

Work length28:50
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  • Martyn Hill (tenor), Clifford Benson (piano)

Group 1 No 1. A Young Man's Exhortation

Track length3:16
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Group 1 No 2. Ditty

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Group 1 No 3. Budmouth Dears

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Group 1 No 4. Her Temple

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Group 1 No 5. The Comet at Yell'ham

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Group 2 No 1. Shortening Days

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Group 2 No 2. The Sigh

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Group 2 No 3. Former Beauties

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Group 2 No 4. Transformations

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Group 2 No 5. The Dance Continued

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Finzi: Before and After Summer, Op. 16

Work length31:01
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  • Stephen Varcoe (baritone), Clifford Benson (piano)

I. Childhood among the Ferns

Track length3:24
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II. Before and After Summer

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III. The Self-Unseeing

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IV. Overlooking the River

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V. Channel Firing

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VI. In the Mind's Eye

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VII. The Too Short Time

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VIII. Epeisodia

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IX. Amabel

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X. He Abjures Love

Track length4:12
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