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Intimations of Immortality (Finzi)

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of 45 minutes duration. Finzi began composing the work in the late 1930s, but did not complete it until 1950, just before it was performed on 5 September at the
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Music critics and historians have pointed out there are obvious stylistic similarities between portions of
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for tenor, chorus, and orchestra, is one of the best-known works by English composer
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in Gloucester Cathedral, with Eric Greene as soloist and
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Index

Op.
ode
Gerald Finzi
William Wordsworth
Ode: Intimations of Immortality
movement
Three Choirs Festival
Herbert Sumsion
William Walton
cantata
Belshazzar's Feast
recapitulation
"Intimations of Immortality, Op. 29"
"Intimations of Immortality/For St Cecilia – About this recording"
"Intimations of Immortality"
Gramophone
Ian Partridge
Vernon Handley
Philip Langridge
Royal Liverpool Philharmonic
Richard Hickox
James Gilchrist
Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra
David Hill
v
t
e
Gerald Finzi
List of compositions
By Footpath and Stile

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