Finzi
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Finzi: Cello Concerto, Op. 40
RecommendedPaul Watkins (cello)
BBC Symphony Orchestra, Sir Andrew Davis
Sir Andrew Davis’s feeling for the composer’s sensitive, harmonically conservative language is abundantly clear in these vivid readings with the BBC Symphony Orchestra. Soloists too are well... —
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BBC Music Magazine, November 2018, Concerto Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2018
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Presto Recording of the Week, 21st December 2018
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New. Finzi: Requiem da camera & Other Choral Works
Hilary Cronin (soprano), Gwilym Bowen (tenor), Florian Störtz (bass-baritone), Augustine Cox, Thomas Simpson (organ), The Choir of Trinity College Cambridge, Steven Grahl
The choral singing throughout remains intimate and reverential. A wonderful achievement, beautifully recorded and most strongly recommended. —
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Gramophone Magazine, September 2026, Editor's Choice
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Trinity’s mixed young adults are effortless in the ease with which they respond to Layton’s exacting demands. The ground is hit running with a Magnificat whose iterations of the word ‘magnify’... —
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Gramophone Magazine, September 2019, Editor's Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2019
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Finzi: Clarinet Concerto & Cello Concerto
RecommendedJohn Denman (clarinet), Yo-Yo Ma (cello)
New Philharmonia Orchestra, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Vernon Handley
The Cello Concerto was in many ways the composer's swansong… The beautifully slow movement is deeply searching and draws on an Elgarian quality, a poignant nobility. Yo-Yo Ma's wistfully introspective... —
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Gramophone Magazine, August 2007, Re-issue of the Month
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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Gramophone Magazine, May 2005, Editor's Choice
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Shakespeare Songs
RecommendedIan Bostridge (tenor), Antonio Pappano (piano), Elizabeth Kenny (lute), Adam Walker (flute), Lawrence Power (viola), Michael Collins (clarinet)
Five songs from Finzi’s incomparable Let us Garlands Bring see the tenor’s head voice floating sympathetically through the melismatic vowels and ever-shifting metres of Finzi’s most sensitive... —
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Gramophone Magazine, October 2016, Editor's Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2016
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ECHO Klassik Awards, 2017, Winner
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Grammy Awards, 59th Awards (2016), Best Classical Solo Vocal Album
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Finzi: Clarinet Concerto, Five Bagatelles & other works
RecommendedRobert Plane (clarinet) & Lesley Hatfield (violin)
Northern Sinfonia, Howard Griffiths
This is a highly commanding performance of Finzi's gorgeous Clarinet Concerto from Northern Sinfonia principal, Robert Plane. With his bright, singing tone and effortless technical mastery,... —
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Building a Library, December 2006, Budget Choice
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New. Gerald Finzi, Freda Swain & Denis Aplvor: Clarinet Concertos
Peter Cigleris (clarinet), Jonathan Raper, Austin Beattie, Lynn Arnold, George Strivens, London Mozart Players, John Andrews
The Finzi of course has form as a recording, and here we have another one, impeccably recorded, with a soloist with a natural affinity for those raw emotions that sometime disturb the gentility... —
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British Music Collection - Gerald Finzi
RecommendedAndrew Marriner (clarinet), Piers Lane (piano)
Academy of St Martin in the Fields, English Chamber Orchestra, Neville Marriner, Nicholas Daniel
Andrew Marriner is a flexible interpreter who brings out both the light and the shade in this work. The Eclogue, here played by a sensitive Piers Lane, is the wistfully pastoral middle movement... —
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Building a Library, December 2006, First Choice
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Finzi: Intimations of Immortality & For St Cecilia
RecommendedJames Gilchrist (tenor)
Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra and Chorus, David Hill
Gerald Finzi's music here is full of inescapable echoes of the melodies and harmonies of Elgar and Vaughan Williams, the ceremonial pomp of Parry… But he had a distinctive gift for setting... —
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Building a Library, December 2006, Budget Choice
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