For the first time, the lovely songs of British composer Gerald Finzi (1901-1956) are collected together in one volume, in two keys. This new collection includes some first time transpositions as well.

Contents

- BEFORE AND AFTER SUMMER:
Childhood among the Ferns
- Before and after Summer
- The Self-unseeing
- Overlooking the River
- Channel Firing
- In the Mind's Eye
- The Too Short Time
- Epeisodia
- Amabel
- He Abjures Love

EARTH AND AIR AND RAIN:
Summer Schemes
- When I set out for Lyonnesse
- Waiting for Both
- The Phantom
- So I have fared
- Rollicum-Rorum
- To Lizbie
- The Clock of the Years
- In a Churchyard
- Proud Songsters

I SAID TO LOVE:
I need not go
- At Middle-Field Gate in February
- Two Lips
- In five-score
- Summers
- For Life I had never cared greatly
- I said to Love

LET US GARLANDS BRING:
Come away, come away, death
- Who is Sylvia?
- Fear no more the heat o' the sun
- O Mistress Mine
- It was a lover and his lass

LOVE'S LABOUR'S LOST:
Songs for Heims and Ver (Song for Moth)
- Riddle Song
- False Colcolinel

OH FAIR TO SEE:
I say I'll seek her
- Oh fair to see
- As I lay in the early sun
- Only the wanderer
- To Joy
- Harvest
- Since we loved

TILL EARTH OUTWEARS:
Let me enjoy the earth
- In years defaced
- The Market-Girl
- I look into my glass
- It never looks like summer
- At a lunar Eclipse
- Life Laughs Onward

TO A POET:
To a Poet a Thousand Years Hence
- On Parent Knees
- Intrada
- The Birthnight
- June on Castle Hill
- Ode on the rejection of St. Cecelia