Grange Park Opera

Gerald Finzi (1901–1956)

It was the death of Finzi’s music teacher Ernest Farrar at the Western Front – combined with the loss of three brothers – that shaped Finzi’s bleak outlook on life. He found solace in poetry with a recurrent motif of the innocence of childhood corrupted by adult experience.

These Thomas Hardy settings date between 1932 and 1949.

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1.  Childhood Among the Ferns

2. Before and After Summer

3. The Self-Unseeing

4. Overlooking the River

5. Channel Firing

6. In the Mind’s Eye

7. The Too Short Time

8. Epeisodia

9. Amabel

10. He Abjures Love

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