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Track(s) taken from CDH55084

As I lay in the early sun, Op 13b No 3

composer
Gerald Finzi (1901-1956)
1921; part of the posthumously assembled Op 13b entitled Oh fair to see
author of text
Edward Shanks (1892-1953)

Ian Partridge (tenor), Clifford Benson (piano)
Recording details: February 1981
Art Workers Guild, Queen Square, London, United Kingdom
Produced by Andrew Keener
Engineered by Antony Howell
Release date: March 1991
Total duration: 1 minutes 27 seconds

Cover artwork: Front illustration. Richard Shirley-Smith (b?)
 

Other recordings available for download

Lynne Dawson (soprano), Malcolm Martineau (piano)
As I lay in the early sun, by the Georgian poet Edward Shanks, was composed in 1921 in the wake of an unpublished by Gurney (for whom Finzi remained a lifelong advocate) and a published one by Armstrong Gibbs. Transparently diatonic with understated modal inflections, Finzi’s lush harmony and ecstatic vocal contours underpin Shanks’s pastoral daydream.

from notes by Jeremy Dibble © 2001

Other albums featuring this work

On this Island
Lynne Dawson (soprano), Malcolm Martineau (piano)
CDA67227Download only

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