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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

English composer Gerald Finzi wrote a set of Five Bagatelles for clarinet and piano that became some of his most popular pieces. We'll hear two of them, in an arrangement for clarinet and strings, ...

The Finzi Trust is launching an International Choral Composing Competition this month in a bid to discover exciting new talent. It is the latest in the Trust's projects to continue the important ...

Lo, the full, final sacrifice Nicholas Collon, Conductor Aurora Orchestra Gerald (Raphael) Finzi, Composer Dies natalis, Movements: The salutation Nicholas Collon, Conductor Amy Dickson, Saxophones ...

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 ...

Dies Natalis, settings of poems by Thomas Traherne, is Gerald Finzi's best known and arguably greatest work. Its addition to the survey of Finzi's music that Naxos has compiled over the past few years ...

It took almost three decades for this 1949 work to be recorded, and even then there’s been more of a steady trickle than a glut of further offerings. Most, however, are worthy of a listen, discovers ...

A MAJOR work by a British composer who died before he was really famous will be performed by a top clarinettist, in Worcester. Interest in the composer Gerald Finzi, who died aged 55, in 1956, began ...