Finzi & Howells: Mid-century Masterworks

Lichtenauer, Michael; Snyder, Jason; Tuttle, Jay; All Saints' Choir; Parga, Sarah; Adelmann, Dale; Hoffman, Ashely; Pressley, Drea; Gunnell, Eli; Phillips, Craig

Herbert Howells and Gerald Finzi , like most other British composers of their generation, were eclipsed by the rapid rise to international fame of Benjamin Britten. Additionally, modernist music critics of the 1950s derided Finzi and Howells as mere pastoralist epigones of Ralph Vaughan Williams. In the brave new world that celebrated the highly dissonant twelve-tone music of Elisabeth Lutyens and Humphrey Searle, both Finzi and Howells seemed irrelevant. The development of listener’s taste is a mysterious process, however, and while the music of Lutyens, Searle, and their generation is now rarely performed, that of Finzi and Howells has persisted in the repertory of orchestras, chamber musicians, singers, and, especially choirs. The All Saints’ Choir is the semi-professional choir of All Saints’ Church, Beverly Hills. The Choir specializes in music of the Anglican/American choral traditions, and is equally at home singing the great works of the European Continent, and music of contemporary masters.

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