Oh fair to see, Op 13b No 2 (Finzi) - from CDA67227 - Hyperion Records

Track(s) taken from CDA67227

Oh fair to see is an aphoristic construction consisting of no more than two extended vocal phrases. Here, however, Finzi’s style has a greater contrapuntal succinctness (notably in the accompaniment), and the prose-like delivery of the vocal line with its careful placing of syllable and rhythm looks forward to the more spacious canvas of Intimations of Immortality which Finzi produced for the Gloucester Festival in 1950.

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Recording details: August 2000
Rosslyn Hill Unitarian Chapel, Hampstead, London, United Kingdom
Produced by Mark Brown
Engineered by Antony Howell & Julian Millard
Release date: May 2001
Total duration: 1 minutes 21 seconds

Oh fair to see, Op 13b No 2

composer

Gerald Finzi (1901-1956)

1929; part of the posthumously assembled Op 13b entitled Oh fair to see

author of text

Christina Rossetti (1830-1894)

Lynne Dawson (soprano), Malcolm Martineau (piano)