244: Nick Pritchard and Ian Tindale on the music of Gerald Finzi

Tenor Nick Pritchard and pianist Ian Tindale have marked seventy years since Gerald Finzi’s death with an album entiteld The Dance Continued released in September 2026. Alongside three existing tenor song cycles, the album also includes five songs Finzi never published, found in manuscripts at the Bodleian Library. Nick Pritchard was introduced to Finzi at sixteen; Ian Tindale when he was studying at Cambridge. In this conversation, we talk about how Hardy’s regret does to Finzi’s harmony, why a false relation lands like a pang, and whether it’s right to release songs a composer chose to keep to himself. Nick admits he’s conflicted. Spoiler: they did it anyway.