At first sight the musical worlds of Moeran and Finzi could not be more different from those of Hugh Wood (90 next year) and Sally Beamish (who was born in the year Finzi died: 1956). Yet somehow these works for string trio hang together well…
This serene and instantly accessible music is beautifully recorded and packaged by the French label, Melism, with the CD itself even having a proper sleeve and a booklet that includes Anna Zassimova’s own oil paintings…
These are the two symphonies in which Vaughan Williams takes on the turbulence of the 1930s and 40s…