Movements
The work is in five movements:
- 1. "Intrada"
- 2. "Rhapsody" (Recitativo stromentato)
- 3. "The Rapture" (Danza)
- 4. "Wonder" (Arioso)
- 5. "The Salutation" (Aria)
N.G. Long has analysed concisely Finzi's setting of the texts.
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