Close menu

Use BBC.com or the new BBC App to listen to BBC podcasts, Radio 4 and the World Service outside the UK.

Find out how to listen to other BBC stations

Episode details

Radio 3,19 Dec 2012,20 mins

Finzi's In Terra Pax

Discovering Music

Available for over a year

'In Terra Pax' was one of Finzi's very last compositions before leukaemia claimed him at the age of 55. Stephen Johnson unpacks the origins of this Christmas favourite and explores how, despite the many tragic events that shaped Finzi's world, he left behind a work filled with hope and beauty.

Programme Website
More episodes

Tracklist

  1. Track
    Artist
  2. 1.
    Quartet in A minor Op.21 for piano and strings
    Quartet in A minor Op.21 for piano and strings
    Herbert Howells
  3. 2.
    In terra pax Op.39 vers. for soprano, baritone, chorus and orchestra
    In terra pax Op.39 vers. for soprano, baritone, chorus and orchestra
    Gerald Finzi
  4. 3.
    Parsifal - opera in 3 acts
    Parsifal - opera in 3 acts
    Richard Wagner
  5. 4.
    Symphony no. 5 in C sharp minor
    Symphony no. 5 in C sharp minor
    Gustav Mahler
  6. 5.
    Symphony no. 5 in D major
    Symphony no. 5 in D major
    Ralph Vaughan Williams