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The Dance Continued
Gerald Finzi

Nick Pritchard

The Dance Continued

Price: € 19.95
Format: CD
Label: Signum Classics
UPC: 0635212101124
Catnr: SIGCD 1011
Release date: 25 September 2026
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Label
Signum Classics
UPC
0635212101124
Catalogue number
SIGCD 1011
Release date
25 September 2026
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About the album

Marking Finzi's 125th birthday, tenor Nick Pritchard and pianist Ian Tindale present all three of the composer's Hardy song cycles alongside five world premiere recordings of early unpublished songs, sourced from manuscripts held at the Bodleian Library. Till Earth Outwears, A Young Man's Exhortation and Oh Fair to See together span Finzi's career from teenage sketches to his final completed song, setting texts by Hardy, Ivor Gurney, Edmund Blunden, Christina Rossetti and Chaucer. Over 70 minutes of music, this is the only recording to bring all three cycles together with the addition of previously unheard works.

Artist(s)

Nick Pritchard (tenor)

Tenor Nick Pritchard is fast gaining recognition for his performances of the music of Bach and, in particular, his interpretation of the Evangelist in the Passions. Described as a ‘Masterly Evangelist’ in The Guardian, he has sung the role in Bach’s St John Passion and St Matthew Passion around the world, and his recording of the St John Passion for Deutsche Grammophon with Sir John Eliot Gardiner was nominated for a Grammy® Award for Best Choral Performance (2023). Also highly regarded as a recitalist, Nick has been Artist in Residence with the Temple Music Foundation, performing concerts including Die schöne Müllerin with Julius Drake, a lute song recital with Elizabeth Kenny, and Handel’s Acis and Galatea with the Early Opera...
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Tenor Nick Pritchard is fast gaining recognition for his performances of the music of Bach and, in particular, his interpretation of the Evangelist in the Passions. Described as a ‘Masterly Evangelist’ in The Guardian, he has sung the role in Bach’s St John Passion and St Matthew Passion around the world, and his recording of the St John Passion for Deutsche Grammophon with Sir John Eliot Gardiner was nominated for a Grammy® Award for Best Choral Performance (2023). Also highly regarded as a recitalist, Nick has been Artist in Residence with the Temple Music Foundation, performing concerts including Die schöne Müllerin with Julius Drake, a lute song recital with Elizabeth Kenny, and Handel’s Acis and Galatea with the Early Opera Company. He has given recitals at Wigmore Hall, the Oxford International Song Festival, and at the Ryedale, Aldeburgh, Tetbury, Lammermuir and Edinburgh International Festivals, working with pianists including James Baillieu, Joseph Middleton, Malcolm Martineau, and Sholto Kynoch. His debut recital album Little Wanderer was released on the Signum label with his long-term collaborative partner Ian Tindale, commissioned for him by Leeds International Song. He has performed with ensembles including Ensemble Pygmalion, Concerto Köln, Les Talens Lyriques, Les Violons du Roy, L’Orchestre de Chambre de Paris, the English Concert, BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Gabrieli Consort, Britten Sinfonia (BBC Proms debut, Mozart Requiem), Les Arts Florissants, the Tonkünstler Orchestra, the Monteverdi Choir and Orchestra, Arcangelo, and the Academy of Ancient Music, as well as at the Thomaskirche Leipzig. He has worked under conductors including Raphaël Pichon, Emmanuelle Haïm, Christophe Rousset, Harry Bicket, Ryan Wigglesworth, David Bates, Paul Agnew, Stefan Gottfried, Peter Whelan, Jonathan Cohen, Laurence Cummings, Andreas Reize, and Václav Luks. Equally at home on the operatic stage, he has performed for the Royal Ballet and Opera, Opera North, Glyndebourne on Tour, Irish National Opera and Opera Holland Park, and created the role of Matthew in Mark Simpson’s Pleasure.


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Composer(s)

Gerald Finzi

Finzi took private lessons with Farrar from 1914-1916 and then with Bairstow from 1917-1922. He mainly underwent influences by Elgar and Vaughan Williams, loved the life in the country and developed his own, intimate style. He concentrated on songs and song cycles such as  Oh fair to see, Till earth outwears, and A young man’s exhortation, preferably on texts by Hardy. Amongst his other works are a clarinet concerto from 1949 and Dies natalis for high voice and string orchestra (1939). (Source: Musicalifeiten.nl)
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Finzi took private lessons with Farrar from 1914-1916 and then with Bairstow from 1917-1922. He mainly underwent influences by Elgar and Vaughan Williams, loved the life in the country and developed his own, intimate style. He concentrated on songs and song cycles such as Oh fair to see, Till earth outwears, and A young man’s exhortation, preferably on texts by Hardy. Amongst his other works are a clarinet concerto from 1949 and Dies natalis for high voice and string orchestra (1939).
(Source: Musicalifeiten.nl)
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01.
Till Earth Outwears, Op. 19a: No. 1, Let me enjoy the Earth
02:19
(Gerald Finzi) Ian Tindale, Nick Pritchard
02.
Till Earth Outwears, Op. 19a: No. 2, In Years defaced
03:37
(Gerald Finzi) Ian Tindale, Nick Pritchard
03.
Till Earth Outwears, Op. 19a: No. 3, The Market-Girl
01:41
(Gerald Finzi) Ian Tindale, Nick Pritchard
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Till Earth Outwears, Op. 19a: No. 4, I look into my Glass
01:47
(Gerald Finzi) Ian Tindale, Nick Pritchard
05.
Till Earth Outwears, Op. 19a: No. 5, It never looks like Summer
01:09
(Gerald Finzi) Ian Tindale, Nick Pritchard
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Till Earth Outwears, Op. 19a: No. 6, At a lunar Eclipse
04:11
(Gerald Finzi) Ian Tindale, Nick Pritchard
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Till Earth Outwears, Op. 19a: No. 7, Life laughs onward
02:11
(Gerald Finzi) Ian Tindale, Nick Pritchard
08.
Days too short
01:42
(Gerald Finzi) Ian Tindale, Nick Pritchard
09.
A Cradle Song
01:04
(Gerald Finzi) Ian Tindale, Nick Pritchard
10.
The Terrible Robber Men
00:53
(Gerald Finzi) Ian Tindale, Nick Pritchard
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Rondel
02:11
(Gerald Finzi) Ian Tindale, Nick Pritchard
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English Hills
03:04
(Gerald Finzi) Ian Tindale, Nick Pritchard
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A Young Man’s Exhortation, Op. 14: No. 1, A young man’s exhortation
03:13
(Gerald Finzi) Ian Tindale, Nick Pritchard
14.
A Young Man’s Exhortation, Op. 14: No. 2, Ditty
03:05
(Gerald Finzi) Ian Tindale, Nick Pritchard
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A Young Man’s Exhortation, Op. 14: No. 3, Budmouth dears
01:48
(Gerald Finzi) Ian Tindale, Nick Pritchard
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A Young Man’s Exhortation, Op. 14: No. 4, Her temple
03:39
(Gerald Finzi) Ian Tindale, Nick Pritchard
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A Young Man’s Exhortation, Op. 14: No. 5, The comet at Yell’ham
02:35
(Gerald Finzi) Ian Tindale, Nick Pritchard
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A Young Man’s Exhortation, Op. 14: No. 6, Shortening days
03:29
(Gerald Finzi) Ian Tindale, Nick Pritchard
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A Young Man’s Exhortation, Op. 14: No. 7, The sigh
03:02
(Gerald Finzi) Ian Tindale, Nick Pritchard
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A Young Man’s Exhortation, Op. 14: No. 8, Former beauties
01:39
(Gerald Finzi) Ian Tindale, Nick Pritchard
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A Young Man’s Exhortation, Op. 14: No. 9, Transformations
03:59
(Gerald Finzi) Ian Tindale, Nick Pritchard
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A Young Man’s Exhortation, Op. 14: No. 10, The dance continued
02:42
(Gerald Finzi) Ian Tindale, Nick Pritchard
23.
Oh Fair to See, Op. 13b: No. 1, I say “I’ll seek her”
01:28
(Gerald Finzi) Ian Tindale, Nick Pritchard
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Oh Fair to See, Op. 13b: No. 2, Oh fair to see
01:47
(Gerald Finzi) Ian Tindale, Nick Pritchard
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Oh Fair to See, Op. 13b: No. 3, As I lay in the early sun
01:57
(Gerald Finzi) Ian Tindale, Nick Pritchard
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Oh Fair to See, Op. 13b: No. 4, Only the wanderer
03:23
(Gerald Finzi) Ian Tindale, Nick Pritchard
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Oh Fair to See, Op. 13b: No. 5, To Joy
03:59
(Gerald Finzi) Ian Tindale, Nick Pritchard
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Oh Fair to See, Op. 13b: No. 6, Harvest
03:59
(Gerald Finzi) Ian Tindale, Nick Pritchard
29.
Oh Fair to See, Op. 13b: No. 7, Since we loved
01:21
(Gerald Finzi) Ian Tindale, Nick Pritchard
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