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Let Us Garlands Bring is a song cycle for baritone and piano composed by Gerald Finzi between 1929 and 1942, and published as his Op. 18. It consists of five settings of songs from plays by William Shakespeare.
1942/10/12 (Baritone and Piano) Performed by Robert Irwin and Howard Ferguson on dedicatee's birthday at a National Gallery lunchtime concert in London. 1942/10/18 (Baritone and Strings) Performed by Robert Irwin and BBC Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Clarence Raybould, in a BBC broadcast. First Pub lication. 1942 – London: Boosey & Co., Ltd.
Let Us Garlands Bring gathers five songs that he composed between 1929 and 1942, when he dedicated the set to Vaughan Williams on the older composer’s 70th birthday. (Finzi also wrote incidental music for a radio broadcast of Love’s Labour’s Lost in 1946.) Finzi organized his five songs into a coherent group, contrasting deeply reflective ...
Sep 9, 2023 · I was eventually hooked because the melodies were charming and the lyrics fit so well —it was Shakespeare after all! From there on, I started reading more into this overlooked composer, Gerald Finzi, through his song set Let us Garlands Bring.
