Finzi: Intimations of Immortality / for St Cecilia - CD

Gerald Finzi

Intimations of Immortality, Op. 29 (1950)

 

1. Andante sostenuto

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2. There was a time when meadow, grove and stream

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3. The Rainbow comes and goes

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4. Now, while the birds thus sing a joyous song

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5. Ye blessed Creatures, I have heard the call

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6. Oh evil day! If I were sullen

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7. But there's a Tree, of many, one

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8. Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting

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9. Earth fills her lap with pleasures of her own

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10. Oh joy! That in our embers

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11. But for those first affections

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12. Then sing, ye Birds, sing, sing a joyous song!

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13. And O, ye Fountains, Meadows, Hills and Groves

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For St. Cecilia, Op. 30 (1947)

 

14. Delightful Goddess, in whose fashionings

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15. Changed is the age; mysterious, man's next star

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16. How came you, lady of fierce martyrdom

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17. How smilingly the saint among her friends

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18. Wherefore we bid you to the full concent

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