Popular pieces that the composer dismissed as 'only trifles.' In 1941, shortly before being drafted into the war effort, Finzi finished three pieces for clarinet, using ‘20-year-old bits and pieces’.

It took Gerald Finzi nearly 20 years to write his 5 Bagatelles, a piece which barely amounts to 15 minutes. Nevertheless, Finzi wrote a short, but well-considered masterpiece. Richard Stoltzman and ...

I have a hunch that music-lovers all over the world, who consider themselves well-versed in the kind of twentieth-century music that does not offend them, have not heard of the English composer Gerald ...

Moments before he passed away, in 1945, composer Aldo Finzi whispered the words, “Fate suonare la mia musica” (“Let my music be performed”). Recently, on a particularly cold December night, his last ...

Every week, Classic FM presenter and music expert David Mellor reviews the best new releases and re-issues from the world of classical music. This week, David picks out Elīna Garanča, Gerald Finzi and ...