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. Gerald Finzi
Search: Christmas Eve
by: Various Artists
Release Date May 14, 2001
Gerald Finzi lived from 1901 - 1956. Surely no other composer sounds so British. He distilled the influences of Elgar and Vaughan Williams into an instantly recognisable style. His music sounds even more traditionally British because of the nostalgia that brims over from it. It is the music of the end of things, of autumn, of the evening of the day, and the evening of life. Death had been a frequent visitor to Finzi's early life. He lost his father and then his three brothers in quick succession. The shadow of death returned to him in his 50th year in the form of Hodgkin's Disease, which he died from five years later. However, this is the music of fond farewells. Finzi is no Dylan Thomas raging against the dying of the light.
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