early experience singing polyphonic Renaissance music showsparticularly in the Osanna Mass which is based on the set of plainchants for the Ordinary of the Mass, Kyriale IX (Cum iubilo), making it akin to a Renaissance paraphrase mass. Each movement also incorporates the chants of other movements, as well as Jewish liturgical melodies. She uses sharper and flatter modes to express symbolicallypraise and prayer, the two themes running through the whole work, along with allusions to chiming church bells (repeated and overlapping cascading phrases), and also birdsong (blackbird, magpie and currawong). The impression is often of sounds echoing in a huge cathedral but this is created by her expertise in canonic writing, rather than by actual cathedral acoustics. (We are not told in fact where the recording was made.)Christopher Finzi

Christopher "Kiffer" Finzi (July 1934 - 28 November 2019) was a British orchestral conductor.

He was the son of composer Gerald Finzi. Like his father, the younger Finzi became a pacifist; he refused to do his National Service, and was briefly imprisoned.  After his father's death in 1956, he helped his mother, Joy Finzi, to establish the Finzi Trust and sustain Gerald Finzi's reputation.  Their lifestyle was bohemian, living in a  remote farmhouse.

Marriage 
Christopher Finzi married Hilary du Pré, a flautist, in 1961, and they raised their four children in the family's home built by Finzi's parents, the composer, Gerald Finzi, and his wife Joy, an artist, at Ashmansworth near Newbury, England.  DuPré's younger sister, the cellist Jacqueline du Pré, was part of the