Michael Finnissy

for tenor and piano This short song was written for the 'NMC Songbook', a CD of contemporary vocal studies. A song of a romantic and wistful nature, Outside Fort Tregantle was first performed and reco...

This is the first part of Finnissy's lengthy work, which lasts around five and a half hours and is divided into eleven sections. It was designed to be performed in whole or part, either as a solo pian...

This is the second part of Finnissy's lengthy work, which lasts around five and a half hours and is divided into eleven sections. It was designed to be performed, in whole or part, either as a solo pi...

This is the third part of Finnissy's lengthy work, which lasts around five and a half hours and is divided into eleven sections. It was designed to be performed, in whole or part, either as a solo pia...

A collection of reflections, variations, and meditations upon some favourite Gershwin songs. Finnissy's idiomatic and virtuosic piano writing combined with a fluid approach to harmony and rhythm imbue...

'Basic Ragtime' is a collection of short movements for a small group of string players and piano. I collected them together at the request of Rodney Lister, for a performance at the New England Conser...

Bright Future ignoring Dark Past was commissioned for Chamber Music 2000. The Chamber Music 2000 works were designed to be technically easy, but still retain the composers own individuality and musica...

Finnissy's Second String Quartet was written for the Kreutzer String Quartet. It is based on a Haydn quartet, and traces of the older work can be discerned within Finnissy's distinctive musical style....

Finnissy's Third String Quartet is the composer's response to the natural world and man's place in it. The work incorporates birdsong, both transcribed and recorded, and the instruments gradually fade...

A short anthem setting the Lord's Prayer in the version of the text from the First Prayer Book, hence the unusual spelling. This was premiered at the Brighton Festival in 2012.

This motet is the fifth of a set of seven relating the life story of the Blessed Virgin Mary. Finnissy's aim was to hint at technical and expressive continuity with the music of the 11th and 12th cent...

For SSATB choir or soloists, unaccompaniedIn this setting, which includes salient fragments for St Luke's gospel (in Greek), alongside the customary text from the Book of Common Prayer, Finnissy rende...

For SA chorus and piano duet. This work uses the poem of the same name by 17th-century English poet George Herbert as the basis for its structure, framed by sections of solo music for the two pianos.

Clemens composed two settings of the Marian text Ego flos campi, one scored for mixed choir of seven voices and this other, more intimate, setting for three voices. Here the voices weave beautiful cou...

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These two motets were written at the request of the Park Lane Group. They are both settings of contemplative, religious (but non-liturgical) texts and both are cast in a repetitive, rondeau-like form,...

Setting a newly written text by Charles Bennett, Five days that changed the world takes singers on a journey through five historical events: the invention of printing, the abolition of slavery, the fi...

This anthem sets the Oculi omnium gradual to still, reflective music. Including sections of plainchant alongside richer textures and close harmonics, it is a beautiful piece that will appeal to a rang...