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Finzi - Intimations of Immortality; Hadley - The Trees So High [CD]

Vernon Handley | Format: Audio CD
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  • Orchestra: Guildford Philharmonic Orchestra^New Philharmonia Orchestra
  • Conductor: Vernon Handley
  • Composer: Gerald Finzi^Patrick Hadley
  • Audio CD (8 Jan 2007)
  • SPARS Code: DDD
  • Number of Discs: 1
  • Format: CD
  • Label: Lyrita
  • ASIN: B000M5B6LU
  • Other Editions: MP3 Download
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 205,547 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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Song Title Time Price
Listen  1. The Trees so High - Symphonic Ballad in A minor:: Adagio10:58Album Only
Listen  2. The Trees so High - Symphonic Ballad in A minor:: Andante tranquillo 4:38£0.89  Buy MP3 
Listen  3. The Trees so High - Symphonic Ballad in A minor:: Vivace 5:04£0.89  Buy MP3 
Listen  4. The Trees so High - Symphonic Ballad in A minor:: Adagio - "The Trees So High"13:26Album Only
Listen  5. Intimations of Immortality - Ode for tenor solo, chorus and orchestra: Prelude 4:45£0.89  Buy MP3 
Listen  6. Intimations of Immortality - Ode for tenor solo, chorus and orchestra: I. There was a time when... 4:05£0.89  Buy MP3 
Listen  7. Intimations of Immortality - Ode for tenor solo, chorus and orchestra: II. The Rainbow comes & goes 2:34£0.89  Buy MP3 
Listen  8. Intimations of Immortality - Ode for tenor solo, chorus and orchestra: III. Now, while the birds... 3:50£0.89  Buy MP3 
Listen  9. Intimations of Immortality - Ode for tenor solo, chorus and orchestra: IV. Ye blessèd creatures... 6:26£0.89  Buy MP3 
Listen10. Intimations of Immortality - Ode for tenor solo, chorus and orchestra: V: Our birth is but a sleep... 3:45£0.89  Buy MP3 
Listen11. Intimations of Immortality - Ode for tenor solo, chorus and orchestra: VI: Earth fills her lap... 1:34£0.89  Buy MP3 
Listen12. Intimations of Immortality - Ode for tenor solo, chorus and orchestra: IX: O joy! that in our embers... 7:55£0.89  Buy MP3 
Listen13. Intimations of Immortality - Ode for tenor solo, chorus and orchestra: X: Then sing, ye Birds sing... 3:30£0.89  Buy MP3 
Listen14. Intimations of Immortality - Ode for tenor solo, chorus and orchestra: XI: And O, ye Fountains... 4:41£0.89  Buy MP3 

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5.0 out of 5 stars Great CD 14 Mar 2008
By Jeffrey Davis VINE™ VOICE
Format:Audio CD
Unlike the other reviewer, I regard Patrick Hadley's "The Trees So High" as the more interesting work here. Finzi's "Intimations" has many moments of great beauty (like the wonderful opening) but it did not keep my attention gripped in the way that Hadley's score did and I will focus on this work.

"The Trees So High" is Hadley's masterpiece. In effect it is a hauntingly beautiful symphony with a vocal/choral last movement. It belongs in the English pastoral tradition with Vaughan Williams, Finzi, Ireland etc. In fact, I have seen it described (unfairly) as like "Vaughan Williams with water". I disagree; for all its great beauty, Vaughan Williams's music has a curiously impersonal quality to it, whereas Hadley's "Trees so High" is a deeply personal and intimate score. The tunes are beautiful and whenever I play the CD (as I often do), the music stays with me for a long time afterwards. Hadley's is a deeply moving, eloquent and poetic score dealing with the transitory nature of human existence.

This is the best performance on CD although there is a very fine alternative version on Chandos, which is desirable in view of the powerful and memorable scores by Philip Sainton on the same CD. This is one of the most desirable of the new Lyritas. Great cover art and very informative notes too.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Wordsworth Re-visited.... 17 April 2010
By Mrs. D. M. Maher
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Am I the only English student who first yawned my way through Wordsworth's "Intimations of Immortality" during those long English classes?! If I'm not, and you felt as I did, your opinion may be changed forever when you listen to Finzi's setting of this poem. The tenor solo part weaves its way through the choral passages and there are some hauntingly beautiful moments...."The moon doth with delight look round her when the heavens are bare"....lovely! Do try this. it brings Wordsworth's poem into a new dimension.
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10 of 11 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars THE Version of this masterpiece by Finzi 24 July 2007
By Geoffrey Bellamy
Format:Audio CD|Amazon Verified Purchase
This version catches Ian Partridge at his best, flowing voice, effortlessly produced, very English in style - exactly what Finzi wanted and expected. The Guildford Phil are not the LSO, but Handley knows what he is doing and obtains fine playing from them. The phrasing, tone colour etc are masterfully done. The recording is good, warm and clear. I have the Langridge / Liverpool recording but this is better. The sound is not quite as good, but perfectly decent still, but Partridge is just more idiomatic an English lyric tenor than Langridge, fine though he is.
The other work is really a filler, fine, but not in the same league of inspiration as the Finzi, which is a masterpiece.
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