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Dies Natalis, cantata for tenor and strings – Gerald Finzi

Performed by Aidan Coburn and the Cambridge Festival Orchestra, conducted by Dr David Crilly. Recorded live in West Road Concert Hall, Cambridge on Sunday 25 August 2019 during the Cambridge Shakespeare Festival. __________ Finzi led a solitary life until his mid-twenties, finding peace and quiet satisfaction in the countryside and immersing himself in poetry and literature. He was exceptionally well read and over the years amassed a collection of some 3000 volumes of English poetry, literature and philosophy. His favourite writers were Shakespeare, Worsworth, Traherne, and in particular Hardy, in whose introspective verse he found a kindred spirit. Dies Natalis – quintessentially the essence of Finzi – sets texts by the seventeenth-century poet Thomas Traherne that reflect the joy and wonder of a newborn child's innocent perspective on the world. The richly textured, resourceful string writing and the long instrumental melodic lines have a broad sweep that carries the music naturally forwards in a unity of spirit with the poetry – a hallmark of Finzi's art. – David Crilly