Английская Википедия:Earth and Air and Rain
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Earth and Air and Rain is a song cycle for baritone and piano by Gerald Finzi (1901Шаблон:Ndash56). It was composed between 1928 and 1935, and published in 1936 as his Op. 15. It consists of settings of ten poems by Thomas Hardy (1840Шаблон:Ndash1928).
It was premiered on 2 July 1945 at the National Gallery, London by Keith Falkner (baritone) and Howard Ferguson (piano).[1]
A typical performance takes 30 minutes.[2] The songs are:[3]
- "Summer Schemes"
- "When I Set Out for Lyonnesse"
- "Waiting Both"
- "The Phantom"
- "So I Have Fared"
- "Rollicum-Rorum"
- "To Lizbie Browne"
- "The Clock of the Years"
- "In a Churchyard"
- "Proud Songsters"
The title of the cycle is taken from "Proud Songsters":Шаблон:Blockquote
The music critic Stephen Banfield has written, "in some ways this is Finzi’s richest score". The cycle contains two of Finzi's best-known songs in "Rollicum-Rorum"Шаблон:Efn and "To Lizbie Browne"; which the composer himself described as "the two worst in the set" - "an opinion which says more about Finzi’s introvert character than his artistic judgement".[1]
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