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  1. Dies natalis
    Composed by Gerald Finzi
    Performed by English Chamber Orchestra
    with Wilfred Brown
    Conducted by Christopher Finzi

  2. (A) Choral Fantasia
    Composed by Gustav Holst
    Performed by Purcell Singers, English Chamber Orchestra
    with Janet Baker
    Conducted by Imogen Holst

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    Composed by Gustav Holst
    Performed by Purcell Singers, English Chamber Orchestra
    with Ian Partridge
    Conducted by Imogen Holst

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5.0 out of 5 stars The only recording of Dies Natalis, 5 Jul 2007
By Mr. C. H. Shepheard "Olfreda" (Cheddington UK) - See all my reviews
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The Wilfred Brown/Christopher Finzi performance of Finzi's Dies Natalis is for me the only performance. I first bought it on LP about thirty-five years ago and played it to death. During the intervening years I have bought other recordings, and many of these are fine, but no one touches Wilfred Brown for the innocence and freshness which, I believe, is essential for ths work.

John Shirley Quirk's Mystical Songs is also magnificent, capturing a fervour that is often lacking elsewhere.

If you love this repertoire, you cannot be without these revelatory performances. Age seems not to touch them. You are left only with vision and wonder.

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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Direct masterpieces, 13 Oct 2007
By Alfietucker (United Kingdom) - See all my reviews
Holst's Choral Fantasia is one of his late, austere works scored for soprano soloist (performed here by the mezzo Janet Baker in stirringly oracular form), chorus, organ, timpani, brass and strings. It is, in effect, a requiem for artists, and became a requiem for the poet whose words Holst set, Robert Bridges. The music is uncompromising and direct at first, with only organ and brass in evidence for the first six minutes or so of the work; warmth finally appears with the chorus singing 'Rejoice ye dead...that yet on earth your fame is bright, and that your names remembered day and night live on the lips of those who love you well'. Strings add further to this warmth, reaching a climax with the words 'Now ye are starry names', leading to a chilling denoument with the return of the opening music. It is as if we are here confronted with the bleakness of death, and the rest of the work seems to be addressing how to find reconciliation with that implacable fate; it ends poignantly with a final soprano solo drifting into silence as if in farewell.

This, and the simple yet moving setting of Psalm 86, were the original coupling to the classic Finzi recording already eloquently written about by 'Olfreda'. These alone would make this disc an essential purchase for fans of these composers, but EMI has added some sweet icing in the form of Vaughan Williams's Five Mystical Songs, beautifully performed by John Shirley-Quirk with the Choir of King's College Cambridge. A real treasure of a disc.
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