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)

Recordings

On this Island

Lynne Dawson (soprano), Malcolm Martineau (piano)

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Songs by Finzi & his friends

Ian Partridge (tenor), Stephen Roberts (baritone), Clifford Benson (piano)

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Details

Lynne Dawson (soprano), Malcolm Martineau (piano)

Track 13 on CDA67227 [1'59] Archive Service Only

English

Ian Partridge (tenor), Clifford Benson (piano)

Track 17 on CDH55084 [1'27] Helios (Hyperion's budget label)

English

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

As I lay in the early sun, by the Georgian poet Edward Shanks, was composed in 1921 in the wake of an unpublished by Gurney (for whom Finzi remained a lifelong advocate) and a published one by Armstrong Gibbs.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.

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