Finzi: Before & After Summer
Royal Conservatoire of Scotland
SAT 6 JUNE 2020
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