Cheap Finzi: Intimations of Immortality; Dies Natalis (Music) (Gerald Finzi, Maciej Rakowski, Matthew Best, Corydon Orchestra, John Mark Ainsley) Price

Wordsworth's "Intimations of Immortality" is said to be one of the great masterpieces of English poetry. Finzi's setting of it has been criticized in the UK as being inappropriate due to the "fact" that "great poetry requires no musical setting." And so, by the same argument, composers should only use less-than-great texts. Now of course many of them do just that, particularly opera composers, but the truth is that when words meet music, it's the music that matters, and Finzi's is wonderful music indeed. Granted he was only a "minor master," but in the careful setting of words his talent was pretty impressive, as this lovely disc so eloquently demonstrates. --David Hurwitz

ARTIST:	Gerald Finzi, Maciej Rakowski, Matthew Best, Corydon Orchestra, John Mark Ainsley
CATEGORY:	Music
MANUFACTURER:	Hyperion
TYPE:	Choral, Choral Music, Classical, Classical Composers, Classical Vocals, Two Solo Voices (with or without Keyboard/Continuo), Vocal
MEDIA:	Audio CD
TRACKS:	I. Intrada, II. Rhapsody (Recitativo stromentato), III. The Rapture (Danza), IV. Wonder (Arioso), V. The Salutation (Aria), Andante sostenuto, There was a time when meadow, grove, and stream, Rainbow Comes and Goes, The, Now, while the birds thus sing a joyous song, Ye blessèd Creatures, I have heard the call, Oh evil day! if I were sullen, But there's a Tree, of many, one, Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting, Earth fills her lap with pleasures of her own, O joy! that in our embers, But for those first affections, Then sing, ye Birds, sing, sing a joyous song!, And O, ye Fountains, Meadows, Hills and Groves
UPC:	034571168760