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In Terra Pax

Christmas scene
soloists (SBar), mixed choir (SATB) and orchestra
Product number: BHI 5500212
Edition: Piano reduction
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In terra pax, Christmas Scene for soprano & baritone soli, chorus & orchestra (1954/6). The text conflates Robert Bridges’s poem Noel: Christmas Eve (1913) and Luke 2: 8-14. Finzi suggested that the Nativity ‘becomes a vision seen by a wanderer on a dark and frosty Christmas Eve, in our own familiar landscape’.

In terra pax is a masterpiece in miniature, Finzi’s pacifism at its heart, and his belief that men and women of goodwill should live harmoniously. Weaving through the music are three ideas: the pealing of the bells with their joyous message, a phrase from the carol The First Nowell, and the alleluia refrain from the hymn Lasst uns erfreuen.

Orchestral Cast

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More Information

Title:
In Terra Pax
Christmas scene
Language:
English
Edition:
Piano reduction
Publisher/Label:
Boosey & Hawkes
Year of composition:
1954
Opus:
op. 39
Duration:
15 ′

Technical Details

Product number:
BHI 5500212
ISMN13:
979-0-060-03030-7
UPC:
073999843385
Weight:
0,08 kg
Pages:
24
Format:
18.5cm x 26cm
Binding:
Saddle-wire stitching

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