Complete Works & Editions

Orchestral Works

A Severn Rhapsody
Op.3 - for chamber orchestra

New Year Music (Nocturne)
Op.7 (alternative title: Nocturne (New Year Music))

Love’s Labour’s Lost
Op.28 - music for Shakespeare’s play

Love’s Labour’s Lost
Op.28b - Suite for small orchestra

  1. 1. Introduction
  2. 2. Moth
  3. 3. Nocturne
  4. 4. The Hunt
  5. 5. Dance
  6. 6. Quodlibet
  7. 7. Soliloquy I
  8. 8. Soliloquy II
  9. 9. Soliloquy III
  10. 10. Finale

Three Soliloquies from ‘Love’s Labour’s Lost’
for small orchestra

The Fall of the Leaf – Elegy for Orchestra
Op.20 (Op.Posth.)

 

Works for Solo Instrument
& Orchestra

Introit
Op.6 – for violin and small orchestra

Eclogue
Op.10 – for piano and string orchestra

Clarinet Concerto
Op.31 – for clarinet and string orchestra

Clarinet Concerto
Op.31 – for clarinet and piano (arr. Harold Perry)

Grand Fantasia and Toccata
Op.38 – for piano and orchestra (full score)

Grand Fantasia and Toccata
Op.38 – for piano and orchestra (piano reduction)

Cello Concerto
Op.40 – concerto for cello and orchestra (cello part ed. Christopher Bunting; piano reduction Harold Perry)

Cello Concerto
Op.40 (ed. Jeremy Dale Roberts; solo part ed. Raphael Wallfisch)

Violin Concerto
(Op.Posth.) (also entitled: Concerto for Small Orchestra and Violin) (ed. Stephen Banfield; solo part ed. Tamsin Little)

 

Works for String Orchestra

Romance for string orchestra
Op.11

Prelude for string orchestra
Op.25

 

Works for Chorus & Orchestra

‘Lo, the full, final sacrifice’
Op.26 – festival anthem for chorus and orchestra

‘God is gone up’
Op.27, No.2 – version for chorus with strings and organ

Intimations of Immortality
Op.29 – Ode for tenor solo, chorus and orchestra, (vocal score, arr. Gerald Finzi)

For St Cecilia
Op.30 – Ceremonial Ode for tenor solo, chorus and orchestra

‘Let us now praise famous men’
Op.35 – two-part choral song with strings/piano

Magnificat
Op.36 – version for chorus and orchestra

In terra pax
Op.39 – Christmas scene for soprano and baritone soli, chorus, strings, harp and cymbal

In terra pax
Op.39 – version for full orchestra

‘Muses and Graces’
unison song with strings

Requiem da camera
for baritone solo, chorus (or SATB solo voices) and orchestra (published by Banks Music)

  1. 1. ‘Prelude’
  2. 2. ‘From “August 1914” ’ (Masefield)
  3. 3. ‘In the time of the breaking of nations’ (Hardy)
  4. 4. ‘Lament’ (Gibson)

 

Works for Solo Voice
& Orchestra/Ensemble

By Footpath and Stile
Op.2 – song cycle for baritone and string quartet (edited by Howard Ferguson)

  1. 1. ‘Paying Call’
  2. 2. ‘Where the Picnic was’
  3. 3. ‘The Oxen’
  4. 4. ‘The Master and the Leaves’
  5. 5. ‘Voices from Things growing in a Churchyard’
  6. 6. ‘Exeunt omnes’

Dies natalis
Op.8 – Cantata for soprano/tenor solo and string orchestra

  1. 1. ‘Intrada’ (strings only)
  2. 2. ‘Rhapsody’ (Recitativo Stromentato)
  3. 3. ‘The Rapture’ (Danza)
  4. 4. ‘Wonder’ (Arioso)
  5. 5. ‘The Salutation’ (Aria)

Farewell to Arms
Op.9 – Introduction and Aria for tenor voice and small (or string) orchestra (plus vocal score)

Two Milton Sonnets
Op.12 – for tenor solo and small orchestra

  1. 1. ‘When I consider how my life is spent’
  2. 2. ‘How soon hath Time’

Let Us Garlands Bring
Op.18 – Five Shakespeare Songs for baritone and string orchestra

  1. 1. ‘Come away death’
  2. 2. ‘Who is Silvia?’
  3. 3. ‘Fear no more the heat o’ the Sun’
  4. 4. ‘Oh mistress mine’
  5. 5. ‘It was a lover and his lass’

Four Songs from Love’s Labour’s Lost
Op.28a – for voice and small orchestra

  1. 1. ‘When daisies pied’ (Song of Ver)
  2. 2. ‘When icicles hang by the wall’ (Song of Hiems)
  3. 3. ‘If she be made of white or red’
  4. 4. ‘Is it not sure a deadly pain’ (False Concolinel – anon.)

‘When I set out for Lyonnesse’
for tenor voice and small orchestra (inc. in In years Defaced)

In Years Defaced
six songs by Gerald Finzi arranged for voice (tenor) and orchestra by the composer, Colin Matthews, Jeremy Dale Roberts, Christian Alexander, Judith Weir and Anthony Payne

  1. 1. ‘To a poet a thousand years hence’ (Matthews)
  2. 2. ‘When I set out for Lyonnesse’ (Finzi)
  3. 3. ‘In years defaced’ (Dale Roberts)
  4. 4. ‘Tall nettles’ (Alexander)
  5. 5. ‘At a lunar eclipse’ (Weir)
  6. 6. ‘Proud songsters’ (Payne)

 

Works for Chorus & Keyboard
(PIANO/ORGAN)

Ten Children’s Songs
Op.1 – (also entitled Songs to poems by Christina Rossetti) – for unison and two-part voices and piano

  1. 1. ‘Rosy maiden Winifred’
  2. 2. ‘Dead in the cold’
  3. 3. ‘Lullaby, oh lullaby!’
  4. 4. ‘The lily has a smooth stalk’
  5. 5. ‘Dancing on the hill-tops’
  6. 6. ‘Margaret has a milking pail’
  7. 7. ‘Ferry me across the water’
  8. 8. ‘There’s snow on the fields’
  9. 9. ‘A linnet in a gilded cage’
  10. 10. ‘Boy Johnny’

Three Anthems
Op.21 – SATB with organ

  1. 1. ‘My lovely one’
  2. 2. ‘God is gone up’
  3. 3. ‘Welcome sweet and sacred feast’

‘Lo, the full, final sacrifice’
Op.26 – Festival Anthem for choir and organ

‘Let us now praise famous men’
Op.35 – two-part choral song with piano

Magnificat
Op.36 – SATB with organ

‘Muses and graces’
unison song for voices and piano

Two Motets

  1. 1. Psalm 121
  2. 2. ‘The Recovery’

 

Works for Unaccompanied Chorus

Three Short Elegies
Op.5

  1. 1. ‘Life a right shadow is’
  2. 2. ‘This world a hunting is’
  3. 3. ‘This life, which seems so fair’

Seven Unaccompanied Part Songs
Op.17 – on poems by Bridges

  1. 1. ‘I Praise the tender flower’
  2. 2. ‘I have loved flowers that fade’
  3. 3. ‘My spirit sang all day’
  4. 4. ‘Clear and gentle stream’
  5. 5. ‘Nightingales’
  6. 6. ‘Haste on, my joys’
  7. 7. ‘Wherefore to-night so full of care’

‘Thou dids’t delight mine eyes’
Op.32 – three-part song (TTB)

‘All this night’
Op.33 – unaccompanied choral motet

‘White-flowering days’
Op.37 – for unaccompanied chorus

 

Works for Voice & Piano

By Footpath and Stile
Op.2 – version for voice and piano

To a Poet
Op.13a - six songs for low voice and piano

  1. 1. ‘To a Poet a thousand years hence’
  2. 2. ‘On parent knees’
  3. 3. ‘Intrada’
  4. 4. ‘The Birthnight’
  5. 5. ‘June on Castle Hill’
  6. 6. ‘Ode on the rejection of Saint Cecilia’

Oh Fair to See
Op.13b – seven songs for high voice and piano

  1. 1. ‘I say I'll Seek Her’
  2. 2. ‘Oh fair to see’
  3. 3. ‘As I lay in the early sun’
  4. 4. ‘Only the wanderer’
  5. 5. ‘To Joy’
  6. 6. ‘Harvest’
  7. 7. ‘Since we loved’

A Young Man’s Exhortation
Op.14 – ten songs for tenor and piano

Part I
  1. 1. ‘A Young Man’s Exhortation’
  2. 2. ‘Ditty’
  3. 3. ‘Budmouth Dears’
  4. 4. ‘Her Temple’
  5. 5. ‘The Comet at Yelham’

Part II
  1. 6. ‘Shortening Days’
  2. 7. ‘The Sigh’
  3. 8. ‘Former Beauties’
  4. 9. ‘Transformations’
  5. 10. ‘The Dance Continued’

Earth and Air and Rain
Op.15 – ten songs for baritone and piano

  1. 1. ‘Summer Schemes’
  2. 2. ‘When I set out for Lyonnesse’
  3. 3. ‘Waiting Both’
  4. 4. ‘The Phantom’
  5. 5. ‘So I have fared’
  6. 6. ‘Rollicum-rorum’
  7. 7. ‘To Lizbie Browne’
  8. 8. ‘The Clock of the Years’
  9. 9. ‘In a Churchyard’
  10. 10. ‘Proud Songsters’

Before and After Summer
Op.16 – ten songs for baritone and piano

  1. 1. ‘Childhood among the ferns’
  2. 2. ‘Before and after summer’
  3. 3. ‘The Self-Unseeing’
  4. 4. ‘Overlooking the River’
  5. 5. ‘Channel Firing’
  6. 6. ‘In the Mind's Eye’
  7. 7. ‘The Too Short Time’
  8. 8. ‘Epeisodia’
  9. 9. ‘Amabel’
  10. 10. ‘He abjures love’

Let us Garlands Bring
Op.18 – Five Shakespeare Songs for voice and piano

  1. 1. ‘Come away death’
  2. 2. ‘Who is Silvia?’
  3. 3. ‘Fear no more the heat of the sun’
  4. 4. ‘Oh mistress mine’
  5. 5. ‘It was a lover and his lass’

Till Earth Outwears
Op.19a – seven songs for high voice and piano

  1. 1. ‘Let me enjoy the earth’
  2. 2. ‘In years defaced’
  3. 3. ‘The Market-Girl’
  4. 4. ‘I look into my glass’
  5. 5. ‘It never looks like summer here’
  6. 6. ‘At a Lunar Eclipse’
  7. 7. ‘Life laughs onward’

I said to Love
Op.19b – six songs for baritone and piano

  1. 1. ‘I need not go’
  2. 2. ‘At Middle-field Gate in February’
  3. 3. ‘Two Lips’
  4. 4. ‘In five-score summers’
  5. 5. ‘For life I had never cared greatly’
  6. 6. ‘I said to Love’

‘Tall Nettles’
arranged for voice and piano by Christian Alexander

 

Chamber Music

Introit
Op.6 – for violin and piano (arr. Howard Ferguson)

Interlude
Op.21 – for oboe and string quartet

Elegy
Op.22 – for violin and piano

Five Bagatelles
Op.23 – for clarinet and piano

  1. 1. ‘Prelude’
  2. 2. ‘Romance’
  3. 3. ‘Carol’
  4. 4. ‘Forlana’
  5. 5. ‘Fughetta’

Prelude and Fugue
Op.24 – for string trio

 

Arrangements by Gerald Finzi

Ivor Gurney
Four Songs – for voice and string orchestra

  1. 1. ‘Under the Greenwood Tree’
  2. 2. ‘Orpheus’
  3. 3. ‘Spring’
  4. 4. ‘Sleep;’

C. H. Parry
Chorale Fantasia on an Old English tune – ‘When I survey the wondrous cross’

 

Editions by Gerald Finzi

Capel Bond
Concerto No.1 in D for trumpet and strings
Concerto No.5 in G minor
Concerto No.6 in B flat for bassoon and strings

William Boyce
Overtures (Musica Britannica)

John Garth
Concerto No.2 in B flat, for cello, strings and continuo

Richard Mudge
Concerto No.4 in D minor
Concerto No.6 in F for organ and strings
Trumpet Concerto No.1 in D (arr. for trumpet & piano by John Andrews)

John Stanley
Concerto No.1 in D
Concerto No.2 in B minor
Concerto No.3 in G
Concerto No.4 in D minor
Concerto No.5 in A
Concerto No.6 in B flat
‘Welcome Death’ from Teraminta, for voice, keyboard and/or strings
Solo in D, Op.4, No.5 - for flute and piano

Charles Wesley
Concerto No.4 in C for piano (or harpsichord or organ) and strings (oboe ad lib.)
String Quartet No.1 in F
String Quartet No.2 in D
String Quartet No.5 in B flat

 

Arrangements of Music
by Gerald Finzi

Introit
Op.6 - for violin & piano, arr. Howard Ferguson

Intrada
(from Dies natalis, Op.8) - for organ, arr. Robert Gower

Eclogue
Op.10 - for two pianos, arr. Gerald Finzi

Eclogue
Op.10 - for organ, arr. Robert Gower

‘Fear no more the heat o’ the sun’
(from Let us Garlands bring, Op.18) - for SATB and piano, arr. Jonathan Rathbone (published by Banks Music)

Interlude
Op.21 - for oboe & piano, arr. Howard Ferguson

Five Bagatelles
Op.23 - for clarinet & string quartet, arr. Christian Alexander

Five Bagatelles
Op.23 - for flute & piano, arr. Terence Allbright

Five Bagatelles
Op.23 - for clarinet & string orchestra, arr. Lawrence Ashmore

Five Bagatelles
Op.23 - for flute & piano, arr. Kenneth Smith

Five Bagatelles
Op.23 - for symphonic band, arr. Bram Wiggins

‘Carol’
(from Five Bagatelles, Op.23) for organ, arr. Robert Gower

‘Carol’
(from Five Bagatelles, Op.23) - for organ, arr. Alan Ridout

‘Forlana’
(from Five Bagatelles, Op.23) - for organ, arr. Robert Gower

‘Romance’
(from Five Bagatelles, Op.23) - for organ, arr. Robert Gower

Prelude
Op.25 - for organ, arr. Alan Ridout (published by Banks Music)

Prelude
(from Intimations of Immortality, Op.29) - for organ, arr. Andrew Seivewright (published by Banks Music)

‘God is gone up’
Op.27, No.2 - for chorus & orchestra, arr. William Godfree

‘Let us now praise famous men’
Op.35 - for SATB and organ, arr. Jonathan Rathbone

In Years Defaced
vocal score

‘Tall Nettles’
(from In Years Defaced) - for voice & piano, arr. Christian Alexander