- These five Shakespeare settings were originally written for voice and piano. Finzi also scored a version for voice and string orchestra.1
- Let Us Garlands Bring was written to celebrate Ralph Vaughan Williams‘s 70th birthday in 1942, though Finzi may have begun this set of songs as early as 1929.2
- Come away, death – from Twelfth Night
- Who is Silvia? – from The Two Gentlemen of Verona
- Fear no more the heat o’ the sun – from Cymbeline
- O mistress mine – from Twelfth Night
- It was a lover and his lass – from As You Like It
Sources
- Diana McVeagh, “Finzi, Gerald,” Grove Music Online (2001), accessed August 4, 2022, https://www.oxfordmusiconline.com/grovemusic/view/10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.001.0001/omo-9781561592630-e-0000009689.
- Essay in accompanying booklet, Visions of England performed by Jonathan Lemalu and the BBC Symphony Orchestra conducted by Jac van Steen, BBC MM298, 2008, compact disc.
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