Earth and Air and Rain

Gerald Finzi; Martyn Hill, Stephen Varcoe, Clifford Benson

Type	Album
Released	January 1, 1990
Label	Hyperion
Genre	Classical
Style	Neo-Romantic

Tracks

43 tracks, 1 hr 59 min
#	Title	Duration
Disc 1
1	Earth and Air and Rain: 1. Summer Schemes	2:34
2	Earth and Air and Rain: 2. When I Set Out for Lyonnesse	2:07
3	Earth and Air and Rain: 3. Waiting Both	3:17
4	Earth and Air and Rain: 4. The Phantom	3:22
5	Earth and Air and Rain: 5. So I Have Fared	2:33
6	Earth and Air and Rain: 6. Rollicum-Rorum	1:37
7	Earth and Air and Rain: 7. To Lizbie Browne	4:25
8	Earth and Air and Rain: 8. The Clock of the Years	4:00
9	Earth and Air and Rain: 9. In a Churchyard	3:24
10	Earth and Air and Rain: 10. Proud Songsters	3:10
11	Till Earth Outwears: 1. Let Me Enjoy the Earth	2:11
12	Till Earth Outwears: 2. In Years Defaced	3:26
13	Till Earth Outwears: 3. The Market-Girl	1:40
14	Till Earth Outwears: 4. I Look Into My Glass	2:09
15	Till Earth Outwears: 5. It Never Looks Like Summer Here	1:11
16	Till Earth Outwears: 6. At a Lunar Eclipse	3:38
17	Till Earth Outwears: 7. Life Laughs Onward	2:09
18	I Said to Love: 1. I Need Not Go	1:39
19	I Said to Love: 2. At Middle-Field Gate in February	3:29
20	I Said to Love: 3. Two Lips	0:56
21	I Said to Love: 4. In Five-Score Summers	1:39
22	I Said to Love: 5. For Life I Had Never Cared Greatly	2:12
23	I Said to Love: 6. I Said to Love	3:02
Disc 2
1	A Young Man's Exhortation: 1. A Young Man's Exhortation	3:16
2	A Young Man's Exhortation: 2. Ditty	2:57
3	A Young Man's Exhortation: 3. Budmouth Dears	1:37
4	A Young Man's Exhortation: 4. Her Temple	2:02
5	A Young Man's Exhortation: 5. The Comet at Yell'ham	3:17
6	A Young Man's Exhortation: 6. Shortening Days	3:12
7	A Young Man's Exhortation: 7. The Sigh	3:50
8	A Young Man's Exhortation: 8. Former Beauties	3:09
9	A Young Man's Exhortation: 9. Transformations	1:28
10	A Young Man's Exhortation: 10. The Dance Continued	4:02
11	Before and After Summer: 1. Childhood among the ferns	3:24
12	Before and After Summer: 2. Before and after summer	2:34
13	Before and After Summer: 3. The Self-Unseeing	2:34
14	Before and After Summer: 4. Overlooking the River	2:30
15	Before and After Summer: 5. Channel Firing	6:08
16	Before and After Summer: 6. In the Mind's Eye	1:49
17	Before and After Summer: 7. The Too Short Time	2:58
18	Before and After Summer: 8. Epeisodia	2:03
19	Before and After Summer: 9. Amabel	2:49
20	Before and After Summer: 10. He abjures love	4:12

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