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reviewed the published score in 1926 and described it as "a highly interesting work" and went on to write: "It is true that the music is vitally influenced by
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is the earliest of the six song cycles by Finzi set to poems by Thomas Hardy, who was Finzi's favourite poet. During the course of his career he set over fifty of Hardy's poems. Composed in 1921-1922, it was premiered on 24 October 1923 by the baritone Sumner Austin and the
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consists of six settings of poems written by Thomas Hardy during and shortly after World War I. Its title is adapted from "I went by footpath and by
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is word-setting and Nature-painting at its most-haunting; music of atmosphere and rapture". An anonymous critic in
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