IDAGIO | Patrick Hadley - The Trees so High, Gerald Finzi - Intimations of Immortality 5020926023827

Featuring

Vernon Handley
Thomas S. Allen
Ian Partridge
New Philharmonia Orchestra
Guildford Choral
Guildford Philharmonic Chamber Orchestra

Patrick Hadley
Gerald Finzi

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Composer's Artistic Vision

Patrick Hadley was a devoted disciple and friend of Ralph Vaughan Williams, who even arranged Hadley's cantata Fen and Flood.

Composer Biography

Gerald Finzi experienced significant loss early in life, with his father dying when he was six and three elder brothers by age seventeen, which haunted him with thoughts of transience.

Composer's Artistic Vision

Patrick Hadley's music is described as eccentric and passionate, reflecting his personality and his preference for operas like Wagner's Tristan und Isolde and Puccini's La Bohème.

Compositional Technique

Patrick Hadley's The Trees so High uses a traditional folk melody as the thematic basis for a four-movement symphony, a concept he later termed a 'Symphonic Ballad'.

Composer Biography

Patrick Hadley spent his working life as an academic musician at Cambridge, where he was born and later became Professor of Music.

Composition History

Patrick Hadley's The Trees so High, completed in 1931, was his first composition to bring him public notice and set the tone for his later major vocal works.