"Gerald Finzi - Let Us Garlands Bring, Op. 18 (1929-42)" on YouTube
https://youtu.be/ASSoVAFsx4M
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@britishcomposers @classicalmusic #geraldfinzi "Voices from things growing in a churchyard" from his song cycle "By Footpath & Stile" #geraldfinzi sadly a very direct experience of death; all 3 of his older brothers died before he was an adult. https://songwhip.com/finziquartet/by-footpath-and-stile-op-2-v-voices-from-things-growing-in-a-churchyard

@classicalmusic @britishcomposers #geraldfinzi As I am sure you all know that today (1st Dec) is "National Eat a Red Apple Day". So not trying too hard to create a link, it's worth pointing out that #geraldfinzi Finzi devoted himself to composing and apple-growing, saving a number of rare English apple varieties from extinction. So what is it that apples need to thrive - well "Earth and Air and Rain" and here it is https://songwhip.com/roderick-williams/earth-and-air-and-rain-op-15-no-7-to-lizbie-browne

@britishcomposers @classicalmusic #geraldfinzi Like as the heart - so beautiful
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hGucmBmpd4U

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Hi Ray

I happen to have part of #gerarldfinzi own library including his own copies of the English Madrigals and the works of William Byrd. Also copies of letters between #geraldfinzi and #herberthowells - as well many other composers e.g. #Vaughanwilliams #arthurbliss and many others - still working my way through though

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#malcolmarnold
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#geraldfinzi
#edwardelgar
#johnmoeran
#gustavholst
#herberthowells

Not that I am obsessed with #britishcomposers at all

Reading: LARK RISE, by #FloraThompson, in a winsome blue cloth-bound edition released earlier this year by #SlightlyFoxed publishers.

“After her husband died, she went away to live with her eldest son, and the round house shared the fate of Sally's. Where it stood is now a ploughed field. The husband's sacrifices, the wife's romance, are as though they had never been - 'melted into air, into thin air.”

Listening to: "Romance for String Orchestra" by #GeraldFinzi

https://open.spotify.com/track/6gHAhWZAJKaAZ4GfrugCbo?si=c488551e7a894d16