FINZI Requiem da camera, For St Cecilia, In terra pax / The Choir of Trinity College Cambridge

Gerald FINZI (1901-1956)
Requiem da camera, For St Cecilia & In terra pax

For St Cecilia Op 30 [19’29] arr. Robert Gower (b1952)
Gwilym Bowen (tenor), Thomas Simpson (organ)
1 Prelude – Delightful Goddess, in whose fashionings[3’04]
2 Changed is the age; mysterious, man’s next star[3’41]
3 How came you, lady of fierce martyrdom?[3’39
4 Stand with us, Merbecke, and be Byrd close by[4’11]
5 Wherefore we bid you to the full concent[4’54]

In terra pax Op 39 [15’39] arr. Robert Gower (b1952)
Hilary Cronin (soprano), Florian Störtz (bass), Augustine Cox (organ)
6 Prelude – A frosty Christmas Eve when the stars were shining[7’06]
7 And lo, the angel of the Lord came upon them[8’33]

Requiem da camera [26’31]arr. Francis Jackson (1917-2022)
8 Prelude[6’18] Augustine Cox (organ)
9 How still this quiet cornfield is tonight! [3’24] Augustine Cox (organ)
10 So beautiful it is, I never saw [7’55] Augustine Cox (organ), Hilary Cronin (soprano), Gwilym Bowen (tenor)
11 Only a man harrowing clods [4’01] Florian Störtz (bass), Augustine Cox (organ)
12 We who are left, how shall we look again? [4’53] Augustine Cox (organ), Hilary Cronin (soprano)

The Choir of Trinity College Cambridge,

Steven Grahl (conductor)

Recorded at Temple Church London 20-22.07.2025

Label: Hyperion
Catalogue number: CDA68487
Barcode: 0034571284873
Format: CD, Album
Country: UK
Release date: 17th Jul 2029
Length: 61 minutes

Three major works by Gerald Finzi—ones which have yet to achieve the recognition they deserve—are here presented in more accessible versions, the organ deftly replacing the original orchestration. This choir’s previous all-Finzi album was praised by Gramophone as ‘a beautifully crafted disc … Trinity at their absolute best’.