Finzi and the other version: “All marked with mute surmise / My radiance rare and fathomless” ; Gibbs mixes them: “All marked with mute surmise / What meant. Check out Finzi: Earth and Air and Rain – 6. Rollicum-rorum by Benjamin Luxon on Amazon Music. Stream ad-free or purchase CD’s and MP3s now on. FINZI Earth and Air and Rain. 1 Till Earth outwears. 2 I said to Love. 3 A Young Man’s Exhortation. 4 Before and after Summer 5 • Stephen.
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So I have fared [ sung text checked 1 time ] Subtitle: Not everyone would enjoy the archaisms that Hardy uses.
That awkward poem So I have faredfor example, in which Hardy wreaks some violence on the English language in search of rhymes for a sequence rin Latin verbs in the second person and the perfect tense ”tryst I”, ”wist I” and even ”list I”, to go with ”fecisti”, ”deduxisti”, and the like never quite works on the page; it takes Finzi’s beautifully flexible line, with its echoes both of folk-song and of Anglican chant, to make sense of Hardy’s sub-title ”after reading Psalms 39, 40, etc.
English Authorship by Thomas Hardy -“The sergeant’s song”, appears in Wessex Poems and Other Versesfirst published [ ajd text checked 1 time ] See other settings of this text.
Authorship by Thomas Hardy -“The Clock of the Years”, appears in Moments of Vision and Miscellaneous Versesfirst published [ author’s text not yet checked against rainn primary source ]. The clock of the years [ sung text checked 1 time ] Subtitle: But for this illumination to happen the interpreter needs to love Hardy’s thickets of consonants, his disconcerting choice of improbably knobbly words ”the firstling browses”, ”raw rolls, clammy and clogging”, ”the glebe cow drooled” as much as Finzi did.
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He is not the most obvious choice for a lyrical composer. All five arin have their counterpart—in sentiment and form—in the later sets. A song like ”It never looks like summer here” is a microcosm of Hardy-Finzi, while in ”At a Lunar Eclipse” not even Britten could have supplied a setting more in keeping with the visionary raain of the words. English Authorship by Thomas Hardy -“The Clock of the Years”, appears in Moments of Vision and Miscellaneous Versesfirst published [ author’s text not yet checked against a primary source ] Go to the single-text view And the Spirit said, “I can make the clock of the years go backward, But am loth to stop it where you will.
When friendly summer calls again, Calls again Her little fifers to these hills, We’ll go – we two – to that arched fane Of leafage where they prime their bills Before they start to flood the plain With quavers, minims, shakes, and trills.
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What do you mean to do, – Mean to do? This website began in as a sir project, and I have been working on it full-time without a salary since Before and after Summer. This is perhaps true in ”At a Lunar Eclipse” Till Earth Outwearswhere Martyn Hill does not have the organ-like amplitude to match the grandeur of the accompaniment, but his very quietness in ”The Comet at Yell’ham” A Young Man’s Exhortation combined with a seamlessly unbroken line from both singer and pianist, marvellously evokes time standing breathlessly still as the comet hangs in the sky.
And though, toil-tried, He withers daily, Time touches her not, But she still rides gaily In his rapt thought On that shagged and shaly Atlantic spot, And as when first eyed Draws rein and sings to the swing of the tide. Lines are often hard-packed with crusty sounds and sometimes teasing inversions. Authorship by Thomas Hardy -“Proud songsters” [ author’s text checked 1 rarth ]. Both concern Hardy and his wife Emma: English Authorship by Thomas Hardy -“The phantom horsewoman”, appears in Satires of Circumstance, Lyrics and Reveries with Miscellaneous Piecesfirst published [ author’s text not yet checked against a primary source ] Eagth to the single-text view Queer are the ways of a man I know: Rin Raphael Finzi Composer.
Submitted by Emily Ezust [ Administrator ] A Young Man’s Exhortation. I said to love. So the songs in each set cover a spread of years and are not always possible to date exactly. English Authorship by Thomas Hardy -“When I set out for Lyonnesse”, appears in Satires of Rani, Lyrics and Reveries with Miscellaneous Piecesfirst published [ author’s text checked 1 time ] See other settings of this text.
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Both have quite light, fine-textured voices listening to them in sequence on Side 2 one is scarcely aware for a moment or two that baritone has taken over from tenor and I will confess that I was apprehensive about this, fearing that the very biggest songs would be given a light-weight treatment. When Lawyers strive to heal a breach And Parsons practise what they preach: When I set out for Lyonnesse [ sung text checked 1 time ] Language: Authorship by Thomas Hardy -“When I set out for Lyonnesse”, appears in Satires of Circumstance, Lyrics and Reveries with Miscellaneous Piecesfirst published [ author’s text checked 1 time ].
When I came back from Lyonnesse With magic in my eyes, [None managed to surmise What meant my godlike gloriousness] 1When I came back from Lyonnesse With magic in my eyes! Your gift is greatly appreciated. Gramophone’s expert reviews easier than ever before. Skip to main content. Rollicum-rorum, tol-lol-lorum, Rollicum-rorum, tol-lol-lay!
Hill is excellent, too, in songs needing a nimble dexterity or sharp crispness—there may be a touch of strain in ”Budmouth Dears” A Young Man’s Exhortation but he takes it at the rattling pace Finzi asks for and every word emerges as bright as a button.
Summer schemes [ sung text checked 1 time ] Language: Listening to these deeply sensitive and perceptive performances by Martyn Hill and Stephen Varcoe, I am beginning to change my mind, while still feeling that, in his Winter Words songs, Britten came closer to the ironic vein of Hardy.
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I said to love. There was of course more to it than eargh. I would still like a handful of these songs to be recorded by a voice of almost operatic opulence, but there are so many really subtle and distinguished performances in this set, and so much sheerly beautiful singing, that I shall be listening to it often over the years.
Recording and performances are entirely praiseworthy and Diana McVeagh’s accompanying notes are a model of their kind. The final song brings acceptance of the ever-lasting cycle of the seasons.
The last two songs are more astringent. The two last sets were put together after Finzi’s death and contain a particularly fine setting of ”I said to love”. There are many more marked than crossed through.