Finzi ’ s output includes nine song cycles, six of them on the poems of Thomas Hardy.

Finzi ’ s choral music includes the popular anthems Lo, the full, final sacrifice and God is gone up as well as unaccompanied partsongs, but he also wrote larger-scale choral works such as For St. Cecilia ( text by Edmund Blunden ), Intimations of Immortality ( William Wordsworth ) and the Christmas scene In terra pax ( Robert Bridges and the Gospel of Luke ), all from the last ten years of his life.

The number of Finzi ’ s purely instrumental works is small even though he took great pains over them in the early part of his career.

The latter demonstrates Finzi ’ s admiration for Johann Sebastian Bach as well as the Swiss American Jewish composer Ernest Bloch.

One can ’ t really speak about experimentation, let alone modernity, in the case of Finzi, even though some of his lesser-known works completely contradict his popular image of a lyrical pastoralist.

Thanks to him and other enthusiasts, as well as the work of the Finzi Trust and the Finzi Friends Finzi ’ s music enjoyed a great resurgence from the late twentieth century onwards.

Du Pré ’ s sister Hilary married conductor Christopher " Kiffer " Finzi, and the couple had four children.

In January 2009, Gockley announced the reappointment of Patrick Summers as principal guest conductor and named Giuseppe Finzi as the company ’ s new assistant music director.

* Gerald Finzi set to music Lucas's poem ‘ June on Castle Hill ’ ( 1935 ) in his collection To a Poet, op. 13a no. 5

Notable premieres at Sumsion ’ s Gloucester festivals included Gustav Holst ’ s Choral Fantasia ( 1931 ), Howells ’ s Hymnus Paradisi ( 1950 ), and Finzi ’ s Intimations of Immortality ( 1950 ); as well as works by Vaughan Williams, Howard Ferguson, Robin Milford, Tony Hewitt-Jones, John Sanders, and Sumsion himself.

Sumsion was considered part of Finzi ’ s intimate circle and was a frequent guest at Finzi ’ s home at Ashmansworth in Hampshire ; the Sumsion and Finzi families ( the Sumsions had three sons, the Finzis two ) also went on holiday together.

Sumsion ’ s compositional style reflects the influence of his more famous contemporaries Howells, Finzi, and Vaughan Williams, while at the same time retaining something of the ‘ diatonic strength ’ of Edwardian composers like Parry and Brewer.

Born in London, son of John Abraham ( Jack ) Finzi ( of Italian Jewish descent ) and Eliza Emma ( Lizzie ) Leverson ( daughter of Montague Leverson, of German Jewish descent ), Finzi nevertheless became one of the most characteristically " English " composers of his generation.

He is the son of composer Gerald Finzi.

In 1964, his son Christopher Finzi conducted the work for its second recording with the soloist Wilfred Brown.

Throughout the 1990s, he often portrayed policemen and soldiers, though took other defining roles such as Bradley Headstone in Our Mutual Friend ( 1998 ) and Christopher Finzi in Hilary and Jackie ( 1998 ).

" In the same year, he played Christopher " Kiffer " Finzi in Anand Tucker's Hilary and Jackie.

Christopher " Kiffer " Finzi ( born 1934 ) is a British orchestral conductor.

Christopher Finzi married Hilary du Pré, a flautist, in 1961, and they raised their four children in the family's home built by Finzi's parents, the composer Gerald Finzi and his wife Joy an artist, at Ashmansworth near Newbury, England.

Christopher Finzi was the elder of two sons.

Christopher Finzi attended the Royal Academy of Music and embarked on a career as a freelance cellist and became the conductor of the Newbury String Players after the death of his father who had founded the orchestra.

* World Record Club SCM 50 ( HMV HQS 1260 ): Wilfred Brown ; English Chamber Orchestra ; Christopher Finzi, conductor

Like his father, the younger Finzi became a pacifist ; he refused to do his National Service, and was briefly imprisoned.

Finzi had a long friendship with the composer Howard Ferguson who, as well as offering advice on his works during his life, helped with the editing of several of Finzi's posthumous works.

The posthumous memoir A Genius in the Family by Jacqueline's siblings Hilary and Piers ( later renamed Hilary and Jackie ), published well after her death, alleges that she had an extramarital affair with " Kiffer " Finzi, her own sister's husband, from 1971 to 1972 when she was visiting Hilary's family.

Through his leadership role with the Three Choirs Festival, Sumsion maintained close associations with major figures in England's 20th-century musical renaissance, including Edward Elgar, Herbert Howells, Gerald Finzi, and Ralph Vaughan Williams.

In 1925, at the suggestion of Adrian Boult, Finzi took a course in counterpoint with R. O. Morris and then moved to London, where he became friendly with Howard Ferguson and Edmund Rubbra.

At around this time he became firm friends with Gerald Finzi.

Finzi was named as SFO's resident conductor in 2011.

From 1971 to 1997, Finzi was resident conductor of the North Wiltshire Orchestra.

Furthermore, the conductor Boyd Neel was ill for one of the three sessions, and Finzi had to take over: his biographer, Diana McVeagh, suggests it may have been for the " Rhapsody ", which was recorded on a particularly cold day-the coldest day in 50 years-and Joan Cross admitted afterwards, " I don't think I did justice to that piece, alas!

The memoir's claims are rejected by Hilary's daughter, Clare Finzi, who alleges that her father was a serial adulterer who had seduced her emotionally vulnerable aunt in a time of great need to gratify his own ego.

Gerald Finzi wrote incidental music to the play Love's Labour's Lost for a BBC live radio broadcast of the play in 1946.

The building's fine acoustics are also finely suited to the music of Herbert Howells, Gerald Finzi, Benjamin Britten and Kenneth Leighton.

During World War I the family settled in Harrogate, and Finzi began to study music at Christ Church, High Harrogate under Ernest Farrar from 1915.

Through Farrar and Vaughan Williams, Finzi belongs to the firm tradition of Elgar, Hubert Parry and Charles Villiers Stanford, which made his music seem unfashionable in his lifetime.

* The Finzi Trust, the official Finzi Trust website: listen to Finzi's music and read about his life and works, the Trust's work and the Finzi Travel Scholarships.

Among those to set his poems to music were Hubert Parry, Gustav Holst, and later Gerald Finzi.

Farrar's death affected the young Finzi deeply, and from the very beginning, most of his music was elegiac in tone.

She studied music and art, and married Finzi in 1933.

* The Finzi Trust, visit the official Finzi Trust web site to listen to Gerald Finzi's music and read about his life and the Finzi Trust's work.

* Joy Finzi, read about Joy Finzi's life, her art, music, sculpture and poetry.

The death of Joy Finzi, who had founded the Finzi Trust in 1969 to commemorate her husband Gerald, was one of the most notable events on the classical music scene.