Till Earth Outwears

Till Earth Outwears is a song cycle for tenor and piano. The songs were composed individually by Gerald Finzi between 1927 and 1956, and collected and published posthumously for high voice as Op. 19a. It consists of seven settings of texts by Thomas Hardy.[1]

A typical performance lasts about 26 minutes. The songs are:[2]

  1. "Let me enjoy the earth"
  2. "In years defaced"
  3. "The Market-Girl
  4. "I look into my glass"
  5. "It never looks like summer here"
  6. "At a lunar eclipse"
  7. "Life laughs onward"

The title of the cycle is taken from the last lines of "In years defaced".

Recordings
  • 1989: Martyn Hill, Clifford Benson, on Earth and Air and Rain, Hyperion Records
  • 1998: Richard Brunner, Laurene Lisovich, on Finzi: Song Cycles, Hyperion Records
  • 2000: Donald Kaasch, Peter Lockwood, on Oh Fair to See: Songs by English Composers, Globe Records
  • 2007: John Mark Ainsley, Iain Burnside, on Finzi: A Young Man's Exhortation; Till Earth Outwears; Oh Fair to See, Naxos
  • 2008: Neil Jenkins, Howard Ferguson, on Finzi: Before & After Summer; I said to Love; Till Earth Outwears; Earth & Air & Rain, Lyrita
  • 2012: James Gilchrist, Anna Tilbrook, on The English Song Collection, Linn Records

References
  1. Adrian Corleonis. Gerald Finzi: Till Earth Outwears, song cycle for soprano (or tenor) & piano, Op. 19 at AllMusic. Retrieved 9 October 2021.
  2. "Texts to Till Earth Outwears: Song Cycle by Gerald Finzi". The LiederNet Archive. Retrieved 9 October 2021.
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