Edmund Finnis

This motet takes Palestrina’s Offertory for Palm Sunday as a musical starting point. The same words of foresakenness from the Psalms are set here, and certain harmonies and melodic contours from Pales...

Edmund Finnis' Preludes, for cello. The arrangement features in Sheku Kanneh-Mason’s third album, Song, which is a very personal collection that refers to the unique singing tone of the cello. Availab...

This motet takes Palestrina’s Offertory for Palm Sunday as a musical starting point. The same words of foresakenness from the Psalms are set here, and certain harmonies and melodic contours from Pales...

an exquisite plangent prayer in close dense harmony with a rising soprano solo. - Bachtrack

an exquisite plangent prayer in close dense harmony with a rising soprano solo. - Bachtrack

These are the first pieces I have composed for solo piano. Many of the sounds, patterns and ideas within them have been in my mind and under my hands for a long time. The brief pieces variously includ...

In these five short trios the fabric of the music is made of flowing iterative patterns, delicate pulsations, closely interwoven colours, lines tracing arcs, unfolding and revolving at different speed...

Written in a single day in August 2012 while on a residency in Massachusetts, this simple piece makes an interplay with the respective colours of the violin and cello. Both instruments are retuned, ca...

Brother is an intimate duet for violin and viola in four movements. Throughout the piece the two instruments are very closely intertwined. Their colours fuse and coalesce. Together they weave patterns...

This quartet is in five movements. I wrote the penultimate movement first. It is a personal reflection on William Byrd’s setting of the fifth century hymn ‘Christe, qui lux es et dies’. That ancient m...

String Quartet No. 2 begins and ends with musical ideas that were in the back of my mind in some form or other since my teens. In the process of moving house during 2020 I rediscovered some old minidi...

String Quartet No. 2 begins and ends with musical ideas that were in the back of my mind in some form or other since my teens. In the process of moving house during 2020 I rediscovered some old minidi...

This piece is made of a sequence of eight short movements. It begins with an ascent and a gradual unfurling. We hear a network of voices flowing, pulsating, revolving, crying out. The music moves betw...

Cyclical patterns of sound move in and out of focus, as if approaching from a distance before receding into haze. The tone of the violin is periodically transformed from white noise via drifting pitch...