Publisher's Synopsis
For the first time, the lovely songs of British composer Gerald Finzi (1904-1956) are collected together in one volume, in two keys. This new collection includes some first time transpositions as well. Contents: I SAID TO LOVE: I need no go * At middle-Field Gate in February * Two Lips * In five-score Summers * For Life I had never cared greatly * I said to Love. LET US GARLANDS BRING: Come away, come away, death * Who is Sylvia? * Fear no more the heat o' the sun * O Mistress Mine * It was a lover and his lass. LOVE'S LABOUR'S LOST: Songs for Heims and Ver (Song for Moth) * Riddle Song * False Colcolinel. O FAIR TO SEE: I say I'll seek her * O fair to see * As I lay in the early sun * Only the wanderer * To Joy * Harvest * Since we loved. TILL EARTH OUTWEARS: Let me enjoy the earth * In years defaced * The Market-Girl * I look into my glass * It never looks like summer * At a lunar Eclipse * Life Laughs Onward. TO A POET: To a Poet a Thousand Years Hence * On Parent Knees * Intrada * The Birthnight * June on Castle Hill * Ode on the rejection of St. Cecelia. A YOUNG MAN'S EXHORTATION: Part I A Young Man's Exhortation * Ditty * Budmouth * Dears * Her Temple * The Comet at Yell'ham * Part II Shortening Days * The Sigh * Former Beauties * Transformations * The Dance Continued.
