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Gerald Finzi : Introit in F Major. Algernon Cecil Newton : Paintings.

Originally written as the slow movement of a violin concerto, Gerald Finzi's achingly beautiful "Introit in F Major for Solo Violin and Small Orchestra" is played here by the Northern Sinfonia, conducted by Howard Griffiths. The violinist is Lesley Hatfield. The paintings are by the British artist Algernon Cecil Newton. Richard Dormant writes of him in the Telegraph :- "Notwithstanding the myth of the undiscovered genius, it’s actually pretty rare for an exceptional painter to go unrecognised during his lifetime – and rarer still that the neglect should persist almost 50 years after his death. But Algernon Newton is just such an artist. Born in 1880 into the family that made Windsor and Newton paints, he left Cambridge without a degree to study art in London. Having married young, he then lost decades of his youth moving around England, trying to eke out a living as a painter. Invalided out of the Army in 1916, divorced and living apart from his children, at a low moment he was reduced to selling his paintings on street corners, so ashamed of his failure that he pretended to be disabled, and wore a mask to disguise his identity. By the time he was 40, he had long been familiar with what the 19th-century critics Jules and Edmond de Goncourt described as “the bohemia that embitters”. Like Constable, Newton’s early life was one of deep frustration, of gratification delayed nearly beyond endurance. His first mature works date from the 1920s, but thereafter his pictures seem to have sold well, and he received public recognition in the form of election to the Royal Academy of Arts. But after his death in 1968 there was no retrospective, no biography, and not even an entry in the Macmillan Encyclopaedia of Art". He was the father of the actor Robert Newton.