from Finzi: Intimations of Immortality & Dies natalis (CDH55432) 1 Andante sostenuto [5'17] 42 minutes 15 seconds 13 tracks2 There was a time when meadow, grove, and stream [3'25] 3 The Rainbow comes and goes [2'27] 4 Now, while the birds thus sing a joyous song [4'21] 5 Ye blessèd Creatures, I have heard the call [0'57] 6 Oh evil day! if I were sullen [2'09] 7 – But there's a Tree, of many, one [2'27] 8 Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting [3'41] 9 Earth fills her lap with pleasures of her own [1'49] 10 O joy! that in our embers [3'05] 11 But for those first affections [4'09] 12 Then sing, ye Birds, sing, sing a joyous song! [3'56] 13 And O, ye Fountains, Meadows, Hills, and Groves [4'32] |