I first heard this work on the radio, not knowing what it was, but i guessed that it was Finzi and his Eclogue, just from having heard about it, and i was right!, how's that for an educated guess?, it basically belongs in the same vein as the slow movement to Ravel's Piano Concerto, originally conceived as the slow movement for a projected Piano Concerto, but the outer movements never materialised, and so it stands alone, and here we have a good 10 minutes of ethereal music, this work / disc appeared in my Blog over two years ago [27th June 2010].
Piers Lane is Australian, he's now 54, and he recorded this disc in 1994, the front cover picture is by Hanya Chlala, probably of Oxford or maybe Cambridge.
Finzi's Eclogue is a little marvel, sounding so perfectly English, hailing from a time of an earlier age, timeless music really,
Here's Lee Thompson playing Finzi's Eclogue on YouTube.
Finzi's Eclogue is a little marvel, sounding so perfectly English, hailing from a time of an earlier age, timeless music really,
Here's Lee Thompson playing Finzi's Eclogue on YouTube.
