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| | Aldo Finzi [HC]: Classical CD Reviews- Apr 2003 MusicWeb(UK) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21) |
 | | The rather sketchy, though serviceable, insert notes do not make it clear whether Liriche per Soprano e Piano were composed as a true cycle or, rather, were compiled from songs written at different periods of Finzi’s early composing career, between 1920 and 1925 (the dates to be found in the Aldo Finzi website). |
 | | Anyway, the literary sources of these simple, often beautiful songs are quite varied: Maeterlinck and Van Lerberghe as well as Longfellow (in Italian translation by Finzi), Arturo Graf (no idea who he is) and Aldo Finzi himself (one song Rondini in Italian and another Catharine in English). |
 | | From the musical point of view, these songs, beautifully written for the voice (the soprano Giuseppina Finzi Magrini was the composer’s aunt), are more like salon music of quality rather than complex art songs; but they are all quite enjoyable and some (such as Barque d’or on a poem by Van Lerberghe) are particularly fine. |
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