Gerald Finzi: Lo, the full, final sacrifice
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1. Gerald Finzi: Lo, the full, final sacrifice
This 1946 festival anthem - memorialising the celebration of the Eucharist -was originally a choral piece commissioned for St Matthew's Church in Northampton (pictured). Finzi assembled the text from two poems by 17th century metaphysical poet Richard Crashaw. Most recently it's Amen section it has been arranged for saxophonist Amy Dickson.
