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47 of 48 people found the following review helpful 
A Soulful Bliss, December 3, 1999 By Dolly137 (Not Canada :)) - See all my reviews This review is from: Finzi, Parry and Bridge: An English Suite (Audio CD) I have performed the Eclogue for Piano and String Orchestra on occasions, once as the pianist and once as the concertmaster and once as a principal. 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. This recording is the only professional recording ever made of the piece. Since it is rarely played I cannot judge with a comparison, but I know the message that the music itself is trying to communicate, and it really touches me when I ever hear it. I will say that this orchestra made a very tasteful record of the eclogue, and that this soulful bliss of music grabbed my heart and squeezed tears out. It's such a beautiful song to my ears. When the ensemble goes into the time signature or 12/8, the emotion is... Read more
24 of 24 people found the following review helpful 
Fine and little known british music, June 26, 2000 By Mr. Christian Lauliac (Paris France) - See all my reviews This review is from: Finzi, Parry and Bridge: An English Suite (Audio CD) As a fan of british music, I just had to acquire this CD. Gerald Finzi's Eclogue for piano and string orchestra is truly a gem and deserves a wider exposure. It is a work full of sadness and longing for happier times, long gone by. Bittersweet and haunting. The other selections are extremely pleasing and will undoubtedly appeal to devotees of British string music. Frank Bridge's "There is a willow grows aslant the brook" is worth mentioning for it is a seductive and harmonically forward-looking tone poem, inspired by Shakespeare's retelling of Ophelia's death in Hamlet (Act V). Its moody and brooding lyricism needs several listenings to fully seduce the listener, but it is worth the effort. As in most Nimbus Records releases the engineering is quite good but sounds a bit compressed by digital encoding or distant miking: you will need to crank up your stereo a little. This explains why I only give 4 stars to this disc. Nonetheless, a wonderful sampler of... Read more
0 of 1 people found the following review helpful Finzi is sublime!, December 30, 2010 By Amazon Verified Purchase This review is from: Finzi, Parry and Bridge: An English Suite (Audio CD) The Finzi Eclogue is absolutely sublime! Anytime I feel the need to visit another mental planet, or just to unwind and forget all the boring annoying stuff around me, I just put this on and I'm taken to a different plain! Beautiful performance of Eclogue and averything else on this CD. The dynamic range is pretty wide, so it's very natural, but you might find yourself fiddling with the volume control if you listen in the car. I don't have that problem - I just turn it up =)
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| 47 of 48 people found the following review helpful A Soulful Bliss, By Dolly137 (Not Canada :)) - See all my reviews This review is from: Finzi, Parry and Bridge: An English Suite (Audio CD) I have performed the Eclogue for Piano and String Orchestra on occasions, once as the pianist and once as the concertmaster and once as a principal. 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. This recording is the only professional recording ever made of the piece. Since it is rarely played I cannot judge with a comparison, but I know the message that the music itself is trying to communicate, and it really touches me when I ever hear it. I will say that this orchestra made a very tasteful record of the eclogue, and that this soulful bliss of music grabbed my heart and squeezed tears out. It's such a beautiful song to my ears. When the ensemble goes into the time signature or 12/8, the emotion is... Read more 24 of 24 people found the following review helpful Fine and little known british music, By Mr. Christian Lauliac (Paris France) - See all my reviews This review is from: Finzi, Parry and Bridge: An English Suite (Audio CD) As a fan of british music, I just had to acquire this CD. Gerald Finzi's Eclogue for piano and string orchestra is truly a gem and deserves a wider exposure. It is a work full of sadness and longing for happier times, long gone by. Bittersweet and haunting. The other selections are extremely pleasing and will undoubtedly appeal to devotees of British string music. Frank Bridge's "There is a willow grows aslant the brook" is worth mentioning for it is a seductive and harmonically forward-looking tone poem, inspired by Shakespeare's retelling of Ophelia's death in Hamlet (Act V). Its moody and brooding lyricism needs several listenings to fully seduce the listener, but it is worth the effort. As in most Nimbus Records releases the engineering is quite good but sounds a bit compressed by digital encoding or distant miking: you will need to crank up your stereo a little. This explains why I only give 4 stars to this disc. Nonetheless, a wonderful sampler of... Read more 0 of 1 people found the following review helpful Finzi is sublime!, By Amazon Verified Purchase This review is from: Finzi, Parry and Bridge: An English Suite (Audio CD) The Finzi Eclogue is absolutely sublime! Anytime I feel the need to visit another mental planet, or just to unwind and forget all the boring annoying stuff around me, I just put this on and I'm taken to a different plain! Beautiful performance of Eclogue and averything else on this CD. The dynamic range is pretty wide, so it's very natural, but you might find yourself fiddling with the volume control if you listen in the car. I don't have that problem - I just turn it up =) |
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