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Gerald Finzi - A Young Man's Exhortation, Op. 14: No. 7. The Sigh

Gerald Finzi's "A Young Man's Exhortation" is a song-cycle for tenor and piano consisting of ten settings of poems by Thomas Hardy. Here is Finzi's setting of Hardy's poem "The Sigh". The poet leaves us to ponder and reflect on "why she sighed" and here Finzi does Hardy's moving poem bittersweet justice. John Mark Ainsley's beautiful performance is complimented by pianist Ian Burnside. I took these pics in the Sierra de Francia, Spain. John Mark Ainsley - Tenor Ian Burnside - Piano A Naxos recording. The Sigh by Thomas Hardy Little head against my shoulder, Shy at first, then somewhat bolder, And up eyed; Till she, with a timid quaver, Yielded to the kiss I gave her; But, she sighed. That there mingled with her feeling Some sad thought she was concealing It implied. Not that she had ceased to love me, None on earth she set above me; But she sighed. She could not disguise a passion, Dread, or doubt, in weakest fashion If she tried: Nothing seemed to hold us sundered, Hearts were victors; so I wondered Why she sighed. Afterwards I knew her throughly, And she loved me staunchly, truly, Till she died; But she never made confession Why, at that first sweet concession, She had sighed. It was in our May, remember; And though now I near November And abide Till my appointed change, unfretting, Sometimes I sit half regretting That she sighed. END For interest, here's an interpretation: "A beloved sighs at the poet's kissing her for the first time. The poet, now approaching the end of his life, wonders in retrospect why his beloved sighed on that particular occasion: What sadness was she concealing? What passion was troubling her? The lovers stayed together, married and loved each well, yet she never confessed why she sighed. Now, in old age (awaiting death unconcerned) with her already gone, the poet mildly regrets that she sighed. He is unable to forget this one sigh and this makes him regret that he did not resolve the matter while his beloved was still alive."