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Finzi- Intimations of Immortality/ For St Cecilia

Tenor soloist: James Gilchrist
Bournemouth Symphony Chorus & Orchestra, cond. David Hill

• Andante sostenuto

• There was a time when meadow, grove and stream

• The Rainbow comes and goes

• Now, while the birds thus sing a joyous song

• Ye blessed Creatures, I have heard the call

• Oh evil day! If I were sullen

• But there's a Tree, of many, one

• Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting

• Earth fills her lap with pleasures of her own

• Oh joy! That in our embers

• But for those first affections

• Then sing, ye Birds, sing, sing a joyous song!

• And O, ye Fountains, Meadows, Hills and Groves

• Delightful Goddess, in whose fashionings

• Changed is the age; mysterious, man's next star

• How came you, lady of fierce martyrdom

• How smilingly the saint among her friends

• Wherefore we bid you to the full concent

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