Finzi: Cello Concerto; Clarinet Concerto

LEGENDARY PERFORMANCES ON CD FOR THE FIRST TIME! World-famous cellist Yo-Yo Ma featured in the Cello Concerto! Gerald Finzi (1901-56) first came to notice for his distinctive compositions in the early 1920s. He had a special affinity for choral and vocal music, but also wrote noteworthy instrumental and orchestral music. Finzi's Clarinet Concerto was composed during the richest, fullest period of his life. The war over, he had returned to the house he and his wife had built in 1938. Before his Opus 40, Finzi had composed four works in concerto style, but nothing in Finzi's output quite prepares one for the force and mastery of his Cello Concerto. Apart from some individual songs, the Cello Concerto was Finzi's last completed work.