Songs to poems by Thomas Hardy / Finzi.

Format:

Sound recording

Author/Creator:

Finzi, Gerald, 1901-1956.

Contributor:

Hardy, Thomas, 1840-1928.

Tear, Robert, singer.

Jenkins, Neil, singer.

Case, John Carol, singer.

Ferguson, Howard, 1908-1999, instrumentalist.

Standardized Title:

Songs. Selections

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Hardy, Thomas, 1840-1928--Musical settings.

Hardy, Thomas.

Hardy, Thomas, 1840-1928.

Songs (High voice) with piano.

Songs (Medium voice) with piano.

Genre:

Musical settings.

Sound recordings.

Songs.

Physical Description:

2 audio discs : digital, stereo ; 4 3/4 in.

4 3/4 in.

Place of Publication:

Monmouth, [Wales,] UK : Lyrita, [2007]

Language Note:

Sung in English.

System Details:

digital

optical

1.4 m/s

stereo

digital recording

Contents:

Before & after summer : ten songs for baritone and piano (32:25)

Till earth outwears : seven songs for tenor and piano (16:40)

I said to love : six songs for baritone and piano (13:26)

A young man's exhortation : ten songs for tenor and piano (26:27)

Earth and air and rain : ten songs for baritone and piano (29:55).

Participant:

Robert Tear (2nd work), Neil Jenkins (4th work), tenor ; John Carol Case, baritone (1st, 3rd, 5th works) ; Howard Ferguson, piano.

Notes:

Songs for baritone or tenor and piano, set to poems by Thomas Hardy.

Title from container spine.

Recorded Dec. 1967, Decca Studio No. 3, West Hampstead, London (1st-3rd works) and Apr. 1970, St. John's, Smith Square, London (4th-5th works).

Previously issued as analog discs, 1968 (1st-3rd works) and 1971 (4th-5th works).

Compact discs.

Program notes by Howard Ferguson and song texts (23 p.) inserted in container.

Contains:

Finzi, Gerald, 1901-1956. Before and after summer.

Finzi, Gerald, 1901-1956. Till earth outwears.

Finzi, Gerald, 1901-1956. I said to love.

Finzi, Gerald, 1901-1956. Young man's exhortation.

Finzi, Gerald, 1901-1956. Earth and air and rain.

OCLC:

229307643

Publisher Number:

5020926028228

SRCD.282 Lyrita