Earth and air and rain / songs by Gerald Finzi ; to words by Thomas Hardy.

Format:

Sound recording

Author/Creator:

Finzi, Gerald, 1901-1956.

Contributor:

Hardy, Thomas, 1840-1928.

Varcoe, Stephen, performer.

Benson, Clifford, performer.

Hill, Martyn, performer.

Standardized Title:

Song cycles. Selections

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Hardy, Thomas, 1840-1928.

Songs (Medium voice) with piano.

Songs (High voice) with piano.

Song cycles.

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

Hardy, Thomas.

Musical settings.

Genre:

Sound recordings.

Songs.

Physical Description:

2 audio discs : analog, 33 1/3 rpm, stereo ; 12 in.

12 in.

Other Title:

Till earth outwears.

I said to love.

A young man's exhortation.

Before and after summer.

Place of Publication:

London : Hyperion, [1985]

System Details:

analog

33 1/3 rpm

microgroove

stereo

Contents:

Earth and air and rain : op.15. Summer schemes (2:29) ; When I set out for Lyonnesse (2:02) ; Waiting both (3:12) ; The phantom (3:18) ; So I have fared (2:29) ; Rollicum-rorum (1:32) ; To Lizbie Brown (4:21) ; The clock of the years (3:55) ; In a churchyard (3:19) ; Proud songsters (3:03)

Till earth outwears : op.19a. Let me enjoy the earth (2:07) ; In years defaced (3:23) ; The market-girl (1:35) ; I look into my glass (2:05) ; It never looks like summer here (1:08) ; At a lunar eclipse (3:33) ; Life laughs onward (2:00)

I said to love : op.19b. I need not go (1:34) ; At Middle-Field Gate in February (3:25) ; Two lips (0:50) ; In five-score summers (1:36) ; For life I had never cared greatly (2:07) ; I said to love (3:01)

A young man's exhortation : op.14. A young man's exhortation (3:11) ; Ditty (2:52) ; Budmouth dears (1:34) ; Her temple (1:58) ; The comet at Yell'ham (3:17) ; Shortening days (3:07) ; The sigh (3:47) ; Former beauties (3:03) ; Transformations (1:24) ; The dance continued (3:58)

Before and after summer : op.16. Childhood among the ferns (3:19) ; Before and after summer (2:29) ; The Self-unseeing (2:30) ; Overlooking the river (2:24) ; Chanel firing (6:05) ; In the mind's eye (1:46) ; The too short time (2:53) ; Epeisodia (1:59) ; Amabel (2:45) ; He abjures love (4:09).

Participant:

Stephen Varcoe, baritone (1st, 3rd, and 5th works) ; Martyn Hill, tenor (2nd and 4th works) ; Clifford Benson, piano.

Notes:

Hyperion: A66161--A66162 (on container: A66161/2).

Song cycles.

Title from container.

Eds. published : Boosey & Hawkes.

Recorded Dec. 17-20, 1984.

Program notes by Diana McVeagh and texts on container.

Contains:

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

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. Before and after summer.

OCLC:

21934808

Publisher Number:

Hyperion A66161/2

Hyperion A66161

Hyperion A66162