Finzi Timeline
1946-1956
- 1946
- ‘Lo,
the full, final sacrifice’ performed; also Dies
natalis at the Three Choirs, Hereford
‘Lo, the full, final sacrifice’, Op.26, a festival anthem for choir and organ, later orchestrated
Love's Labour’s Lost, Op.28, music for Shakespeare's play for BBC Home Service Radio production - 1947
- For
St Cecilia performed at the Royal Albert Hall under
Boult
Love's Labour’s Lost, Op.28a, arrangement for voice and small orchestra (1946-47)
For St Cecilia, Op.30, for tenor, chorus and orchestra (1946-47)
’My lovely one’ a choral anthem from Three Anthems, Op.27 - 1948
- Broadcasts a talk on Parry, and over the following years orders
Parry’s manuscripts for placing in the Bodleian Library
After the premiere of Finzi's
Clarinet Concerto, Hereford
Three Choirs Festival.
From L to R: Frederick Thurston,
Nigel Finzi, Vaughan Williams,
GF, Christopher Finzi - 1949
- Conducts premiere of Clarinet Concerto with Frederick Thurston and the London Symphony Orchestra at the Three Choirs, Hereford
- Before
and After Summer published
Clarinet Concerto, Op.31 (1948-49)
Before and After Summer, Op.16 for baritone and piano (1932-49) - 1950
- Intimations
of Immortality performed at the Three Choirs, Gloucester
Intimations of Immortality, Op.29, ode for tenor, chorus and orchestra (late 1930s, 1949-50) - 1951
- Learns he suffers from Hodgkin’s Disease and has ten years or less to live; presents a paper on John Stanley to the Royal Musical Association
- ’God
is gone up’ a choral anthem for choir and organ or choir and
orchestra from Three Anthems, Op.27
Let us now praise famous men, Op.35, two-part songs for unaccompanied male voices
Finzi and Vaughan Williams
at the Worcester Three
Choirs Festival, early 1950s - 1952
- Love's
Labour’s Lost Suite for small orchestra performed,
Cheltenham Festival
Magnificat, Op.36, for soloists, chorus and orchestra or organ - 1953
- ’White-flowering
days’, Op.36, for unaccompanied chorus (1952-53)
’Welcome, Sweet and Sacred Feast’ choral anthem from Three Anthems, Op.27
Grand Fantasia and Toccata, Op.38, for piano and orchestra - 1954
- All-Finzi concert at the Festival Hall includes the first
London performance of the Grand
Fantasia and Toccata
Begins editing a volume of Boyce overtures for Musica Britannica - In terra pax, Op.39, for soloists, chorus, strings & percussion, re-scored in 1956
- 1955
- Composes Cello
Concerto for the Cheltenham Festival at the request of Sir John
Barbirolli
Delivers the Crees lectures at the Royal College of Music on ‘The Composer’s Use of Words’ - In
terra pax broadcast
Cello Concerto (1951-55)
Love's Labour’s Lost, Op.28b, Suite for small orchestra - 1956
- Dies at Oxford, 27 September
In terra pax (rescored version) performed at the Three Choirs, Gloucester