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	Gerald Finzi - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In the poetry of Hardy, Traherne, and later William Wordsworth, Finzi was attracted by the recurrent motif of the innocence of childhood corrupted by adult experience.
		Finzi never felt at home in the city and, having married the artist Joyce Black, settled with her in Aldbourne, Berkshire, where he devoted himself to composing and apple-growing, saving a number of rare English apple varieties from extinction.
		Finzi’s son, Christopher, inherited his pacifist sympathies as well as his musical talent and became a noted conductor and an exponent of his father’s music.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Gerald_Finzi (1189 words)

	Encyclopedia: Christopher Finzi
		Christopher Finzi Christopher Finzi, familiarly known as "Kiffer" (born 1934), is an orchestral conductor.
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	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Christopher-Finzi (537 words)

	Christopher Finzi - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Christopher "Kiffer" Finzi, (born 1934), is a British orchestral conductor.
		Christopher Finzi married Hilary du Pré, a flautist, and they raised four children in the family's farmhouse.
		From 1971 to 1997, Finzi was resident conductor of the North Wiltshire Orchestra.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Christopher_Finzi (210 words)

	Telegraph \| News \| Christopher Bunting
		Christopher Bunting, the cellist, teacher and composer who has died aged 80, gave the first performances of the concertos by Gerald Finzi in 1955 and by Alan Rawsthorne in 1967.
		The Finzi was given at the Cheltenham Festival and conducted by Sir John Barbirolli, who had chosen Bunting as soloist.
		Christopher Evelyn Bunting was born in London on August 8 1924.
	www.telegraph.co.uk /news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2005/08/10/db1002.xml&sSheet=/portal/2005/08/10/ixportal.html (512 words)

	Christopher Finzi
		Christopher Finzi, familiarly known as "Kiffer" (born 1934), is an orchestral conductor.
		The son of composer Gerald Finzi and husband of Hilary du Pré, Finzi's own musical career has sometimes been overlooked as a result of his illustrious relations.
		After Gerald Finzi's death in 1956, Kiffer helped his mother, Joy Finzi, to found the Finzi Trust and preserve Gerald's memory.
	www.sciencedaily.com /encyclopedia/christopher_finzi (228 words)

	Joy Finzi - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Joy Finzi (March 3, 1907 - June 14, 1991) was an artist and founder of the Finzi Trust, a foundation named for her deceased husband, composer Gerald Finzi.
		Together with her husband, Finzi played an important part in founding the Newbury String Players.
		Following his death in 1956, she founded the Finzi Trust to finance the recording of his work and that of other composers.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Joy_Finzi (174 words)

	Ivor Gurney Poet-Composer - Gurney's Friends' Biographies (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19)
		Gerald Finzi met Joyce Black when he rented a cottage from her in the early 1930s and had to call on her for help because a problem with the flue caused the cottage to fill with smoke.
		After Finzi’s death in 1956, Joy along with her sons and Howard Ferguson founded the Finzi Trust and under its auspices most of Gerald’s music was recorded, first with Lyrita and later by Hyperion, Chandos and EMI.
		It is easy enough to understand Finzi’s frustration with Scott who seemed, from his perspective, always to be placing obstacles in his way as he and his wife Joy and their friend Howard Ferguson tried throughout three decades to wrest Gurney’s manuscripts — and cooperation — from her.
	www.geneva.edu /~dksmith/gurney/contemporaries.html (5583 words)

	Christopher Bunting - The English cellist died in July 2005 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19)
		He studied cello with Maurice Eisenberg, both in the UK and the USA, and was awarded a scholarship in 1952 to study for a year with Casals, whose inspiration formed the basis for Bunting's own teaching.
		He premièred the Finzi cello concerto at Cheltenham in 1955 with Barbirolli and the Hallé Orchestra, and also the first performance of Alan Rawsthorne's Cello Concerto in London.
		As a cerebral performer and teacher, he believed that composers and performers should work together from the very early stages of a composition (as he himself did with the Finzi concerto), and that a performer's technique should be kept simple for improved expression.
	www.mvdaily.com /news/item.cgi?id=300643 (197 words)

	Guardian Unlimited \| Arts news \| Christopher Bunting
		The cellist Christopher Bunting, who has died aged 80, believed that to study the cello, players must study and understand themselves.
		Bunting was closely involved in the composition of Gerald Finzi's Cello Concerto, which he premiered at the Cheltenham festival in 1955 with Sir John Barbirolli and the Hallé Orchestra.
		Christopher's phenomenal cello playing was both humbling and uplifting.
	www.guardian.co.uk /arts/news/obituary/0,12723,1542847,00.html?gusrc=rss (941 words)

	Jacqueline du Pré - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		This was evidenced by the many performances of du Pré with Barenboim as either a pianist or orchestral conductor.
		Jacqueline's sister, Hilary, was married to the conductor, Christopher "Kiffer" Finzi, with whom Jacqueline had an affair.
		According to Hilary and her brother Piers in their book A Genius in the Family (released in America as Hilary and Jackie), the affair was conducted with Hilary's consent as a way of helping Jacqueline through a near–nervous breakdown, during which she exhibited suicidal behavior.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Jacqueline_Du_Pre (699 words)

	Amazon@Apolyton (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19)
		Gerald Finzi's Eclogue for piano and string orchestra is truly a gem and deserves a wider exposure.
		Both times, I discovered something new each time and it drew me to think about sadness and beauty of Finzi's life that he was experiencing as he wrote this piece.
		This piece was meant to be the slow movement of his never-finished piano concert, but he died shortly after the last measure of the music was completed.
	apolyton.net /amazon/item.php?ASIN=B0000037EZ (718 words)

	The Samling Foundation - Nurturing tomorrow's performing and visual artists
		B minor Mass at the Teatro Monumental (for Spanish Television), the Latvian premiere of Elgar's Dream of Gerontius, two concerts in a Stravinsky Festival in Luxembourg and a performance of The Messiah in the Concert Hall of the Forbidden City, Beijing.
		Christopher has appeared on radio broadcasts in France, Belgium and at home on BBC Radio 3.
		Current and Forthcoming Activities: Christopher is shortly to go to Rouen Opera to cover the role of The Traveller in Curlew River for three performances in February 2003.
	www.samlingfoundation.co.uk /alumni/alumni_c_foster.html (499 words)

	Music
		This latter subject is one with which Finzi had intimate familiarity as a young child, and it might be the key to his dilemma.
		Finzi's frequent encounters with death easily explain his attraction to the poetry and pessimism of Thomas Hardy, another English agnostic, many of whose poems Finzi set to music.
		Finzi is the composer of beginnings and endings, of birth and death.
	www.crisismagazine.com /december2001/music.htm (1395 words)

	Christopher Finzi - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19)
		Christopher Finzi - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		Christopher Finzi married Hilary du Pré, a flautist, and they have raised four children in a dilapidated farmhouse.
		Her sister, the cellist Jacqueline du Pre, was part of the household during the 1970s; his wife's memoirs and the film Hilary and Jackie have publicized his love affair (apparently consented to by his wife) with that sister-in-law.
	www.arikah.net /encyclopedia/Christopher_Finzi (186 words)

	classical music - andante - springtime at the proms
		Richard Hickox, numerous choirs and the orchestra of BBC Wales in Debussy's Printemps, Finzi's Cello Concerto (with Raphael Wallfisch) and Britten's Spring Symphony.
		Stressing Gerald Finzi's significance in the overall context of English music, the program notes quoted a fellow musician, "Finzi's music exhales the very air of England." If that is the case, then - to judge from the composer's Cello Concerto - the air is melancholy, resigned, somewhat indulgent, evocative of tidy green fields.
		It was also a joy to hear the individual orchestra instruments create beautiful colors: both Debussy and Finzi had used the orchestra to create one uniform sound, but in the Britten the instruments took on a life of their own, instrumental and vocal voices as equal partners in weaving counterpoint.
	www.andante.com /article/article.cfm?id=13883 (542 words)

	ezFolk Media Store (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19)
		With Christopher Robinson nearing the end of his reign in charge of this world-renowned choir, there could hardly be a better testament to his work.
		The likes of "Drop, drop slow tears" and "Set me as a seal" are standards for choirs up and down the land, but pieces such as the remarkable "The Twelve" and "Where does the uttered music go?" require a particular virtuosity, which is more than evident here.
		Christopher Whitton's organ playing also impresses, not least in arrangements of the two ubiquitous movements from Walton's film music for Henry V.
	www.ezfolk.com /cgi-bin/ae.pl?asinsearch=B00005Y0MG (381 words)

	JACQUELINE DU PRÉ
		Her recordings still sell in droves; Christopher Nupen's film Jacqueline du Pré - In Portrait was the highest-selling classical DVD of 2004, and surely nobody who has seen his film of her performing the Elgar Cello Concerto can hear the work again without remembering her.
		Christopher Nupen's films have preserved much of Du Pré's personal magic, shot in an involving, informal manner unprecedented in music documentaries at the time (A Portrait of Jacqueline du Pré shows her on a train, gleefully strumming her cello like a guitar).
		She describes Kiffer Finzi as "an unorthodox figure, somewhere between a gentleman farmer and a 1970's hippy." Jackie became involved with him because, "having lost faith in her marriage, she now sought male protection elsewhere." Wilson writes that "within a year.
	www.arlindo-correia.com /200501.html (7377 words)

	FINZI I Said to Love NAXOS 8.557644 [EM]: Classical CD Reviews- July 2005 MusicWeb-International (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19)
		Hardy was a poet with whom Finzi felt a tremendous affinity, to the extent that his copy of Hardy’s Collected Poems was clearly his "desert island" book.
		Finzi set to remarkably apt music some of (arguably) the greatest poems in the English language — if you are unfamiliar with either, you are in for both a treat and a surprise.
		And just as Finzi gives the words perfect musical settings, so Williams seems, if such a thing is possible, to have the knack of the perfect interpretation.
	www.musicweb-international.com /classrev/2005/July05/Finzi_love_8557644.htm (617 words)

	Gerald Finzi Music Collection
		Mrs Finzi also gave the library some 700 sets of orchestral parts accumulated by the Newbury String Players, a group formed and conducted by Gerald Finzi and later his son, Christopher.
		Access to the Finzi Music Collection material is by arrangement with Christopher Cipkin, during office hours only (Monday - Thursday, 09:00 - 17:00 and Fridays 10:00 - 17:00).
		We do not lend items from the Finzi Music Collection on inter-library loan, but sets from the Newbury String Players can be borrowed provided the borrower meets all the costs involved.
	www.library.rdg.ac.uk /colls/special/finzimus.html (320 words)

	Hancock & Monks - New CDs
		FINZI: Cello Concerto Op.40; Eclogue for piano and strings Op.10; Grand Fantasia and Toccata Op.38.
		FINZI: Dies Natalis; VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: 5 Mystical Songs; O clap your hands; HOLST: A Choral Fantasia; Psalm 86.
		FINZI: Lo, the full, final sacrifice; God is gone up; Magnificat; VAUGHANWILLIAMS: Mass in g minor; BAX: Mater ora filium; I sing of a maiden; This Worldes Joie.
	www.hancockandmonks.co.uk /newcf.htm (4509 words)

	ttgapers.com store - Finzi: Lo, the Full, Final Sacrifice and Other Choral Works - - Product Details (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19)
		Finzi: Cello Concerto; Grand Fantasia and Toccata; Eclogue
		The disc leads off with what is probably Finzi's most popular sacred choral work, 'God is gone up with a triumphal shout,' set to a text by Edward Taylor.
		The opening organ fanfare is followed by sung fanfares with men's voices echoing those of the trebles.
	www.ttgapers.com /ttStore-index2-asin-B00006RHPP.html (606 words)

	Newbury String Players Collections
		It consists of some 700 sets of orchestral parts was accumulated by the Newbury String Players, a group formed and conducted by Gerald Finzi and later his son, Christopher.
		Members of the University should contact Christopher Cipkin to arrange a loan of the music.
		Returned to Christopher Finzi in accordance with the agreement of Lengnick, the publisher.
	www.library.rdg.ac.uk /colls/nspcat.html (1575 words)

	ArkivMusic \| English Choral Music - Walton / Robinson, St. John's College
		Both recordings feature these essential choral pieces in performances that are as faithfully and fully realized as we can hope for (accompanied works are given in their versions with organ), from the bright and brilliant Coronation Te Deum to the sturdy and reassuring anthem Set me as a seal upon thine heart.
		This is as much due to the round-shaped, clearly focused tone of the boy singers as to the Finzi women's well-balanced, warmly-colored vocal character--in each case fitting perfectly into the respective overall ensemble mix.
		Now for the differences: the Finzi program offers Walton's lovely--and tricky-to-sing--Christmas carols--Make we joy now in this Fest, What Cheer?, King Herod and the Cock, and All this time; St. John's inserts two organ solos of music from Henry V. Otherwise, the programs are identical in repertoire.
	www.arkivmusic.com /classical/album.jsp?site_id=CTRV&album_id=50883 (431 words)

	Classical CD Reviews- June 1999 ENGLISH ORCHESTRAL SONGS: Maltman (bar): Music on the Web (UK) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19)
		Christopher Maltman's pioneering programme of largely unfamiliar music for baritone and orchestra is remarkable, and we need to summarise the contents to appreciate the range of the programme.
		A typically pastoral scene of magnificent beauty is just the right tonic to this well-filled disc of English orchestral songs, all rarities in their own field.
		The disc concludes with Gerald Finzi's mammoth setting of 'Let us garlands bring', an almost symphonic conception of great pastoral beauty, it is indeed a fitting epilogue to a wonderful project.
	www.musicweb-international.com /classrev/jun99/english.htm (1486 words)

	Classics Today.com - Your Online Guide to Classical Music
		Gerald Finzi's choral music never has achieved popularity on the level of works by composers such as Stanford, Vaughan Williams, or Elgar, and in general this is because by comparison it's not as well-organized, the inner structural details aren't as carefully developed, and the balance of text with musical ideas isn't as facile.
		As a result, many of Finzi's choral pieces sound just a bit labored, a bit more difficult than they need to be, the structural edges a bit rough, the overall concept unpolished.
		Not that Finzi is a careless or inept craftsman.
	www.classicstoday.com /review.asp?ReviewNum=6671 (383 words)

	Music
		Like Vaughan Williams, Gerald Finzi (1901-1956) seems to have been that special breed of believing agnostic who wrote sublime, religiously inspired music.
		In Dies Natalis, Finzi set the text of Thomas Traherne’s poem of that name for tenor and orchestra.
		As Finzi recalled in 1939, "There is a great resemblance between the static and the ecstatic.
	www.crisismagazine.com /december2002/music.htm (1339 words)

	Du Pré film opens to row over 'excessive sex scenes'
		In it, Hilary revealed that after du Pré's illness was diagnosed, the cellist suffered a breakdown and begged Hilary to allow her to have sex with Hilary's husband, Christopher "Kiffer" Finzi.
		Hilary agreed to the request and the cellist and Finzi had an open affair for 16 months.
		In a campaign led by the cellist Julian Lloyd Webber, musical devotees of du Pré claim that Hilary and Piers were driven to write the book because they were eaten up with jealousy and bitterness at their sister's success.
	www.telegraph.co.uk /htmlContent.jhtml?html=/archive/1999/01/21/ndup21.html (475 words)

	Symposium Records (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19)
		Christopher Bunting studied with Maurice Eisenberg and with Pablo Casals.
		He gave world premieres of concertos by Finzi, Rawsthorne and Routh, and also many other British first performances.
		Christopher Bunting (’cello) — Suite No.3 in C major, BWV 1009 — J.S. Bach — CD 1338
	www.symposiumrecords.co.uk /cd1338.htm (157 words)

	Jacqueline du Pré @ Soundbug
		In 1965, du Pré played the Elgar concerto at her first appearance in the USA on May 14 at the Carnegie Hall.
		Her friendship with musicians Itzhak Perlman, Zubin Mehta, Pinchas Zukerman and Daniel Barenboim led to the famous film by Christopher Nupen of their Schubert "Trout" Quintet.
		The affair had Hilary's consent: the circumstances were later explained candidly, in the memoire Hilary and Jackie, co-written by Hilary and her brother Piers du Pré.
	www.soundbug.com /artist/2139 (672 words)

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