On Wednesday, the Boston Conservatory Conductors’ Choir presents a concert of British repertoire concluding with works by Gerald Finzi (1901-1956), a late standard-bearer of a kind of unmistakably ...

In our hectic world of instant gratification many people still turn to pursuits that require patience and attention. One of the pleasures of bird-watching is having to wait quietly for something to ...

Williams/Irons/City of London Choir/London Mozart Players/Wetton (Naxos) The most familiar and earliest of the works here – George Butterworth’s orchestral rhapsody A Shropshire Lad, which was ...

Sixty years after Gerald Finzi’s death devotees keep his unmistakably English music alive. This odd anniversary collection places genuine orchestral pieces alongside newly made arrangements of songs ...

I said to love, Movements: I need not go Roderick Williams, Baritone Gerald (Raphael) Finzi, Composer Iain Burnside, Piano I said to love, Movements: At Middle-Field gate in February Gerald (Raphael) ...

It took Gerald Finzi nearly 20 years to write his 5 Bagatelles, a piece which barely amounts to 15 minutes. Nevertheless, Finzi wrote a short, but well-considered masterpiece. Richard Stoltzman and ...

Every week, Classic FM presenter and music expert David Mellor reviews the best new releases and re-issues from the world of classical music. This week, David picks out Elīna Garanča, Gerald Finzi and ...

The music of Finzi is underrated and fully deserving of further exploration, says Jane Jones. The death of Finzi’s first music teacher Ernest Farrar in the First World War affected him deeply, as did ...

Concerto for Cello and Orchestra Gerald (Raphael) Finzi, Composer BBC Symphony Orchestra Paul Watkins, Cello Andrew Davis, Conductor Eclogue Gerald (Raphael) Finzi, Composer Louis Lortie, Piano BBC ...

Gerald Finzi was an English Johnny Appleseed. His apple orchard was a national treasure. And his music is just as picturesque as his orchard. John Churchwell is the pianist in Finzi's "Eclogue" for ...