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Finnis - The Air, Turning | NMC Recordings NMCD249

Finnis - The Air, Turning

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Label: NMC Recordings

Cat No: NMCD249

Barcode: 5023363024921

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Release Date: 8th February 2019

Contents

Artists

Mark Simpson (clarinet)
Vikingur Olafsson (piano)
Eloisa-Fleur Thom (violin)
Benjamin Beilman (violin)
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Birmingham Contemporary Music Group
London Contemporary Orchestra
Britten Sinfonia

Conductors

Ilan Volkov
Richard Baker
Robert Ames
Andrew Gourlay

Works

Finnis, Edmund

Between Rain
Duets (4) for clarinet and piano
Elsewhere
Parallel Colour
Shades Lengthen
The Air, Turning

Artists

Mark Simpson (clarinet)
Vikingur Olafsson (piano)
Eloisa-Fleur Thom (violin)
Benjamin Beilman (violin)
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Birmingham Contemporary Music Group
London Contemporary Orchestra
Britten Sinfonia

Conductors

Ilan Volkov
Richard Baker
Robert Ames
Andrew Gourlay

About

Edmund Finnis is a ‘hugely gifted composer’ (Sunday Telegraph) and his multifaceted output ranges from intimate music for soloists and duets to immersive electronic pieces, music for film, ensemble and choral music, and works for large orchestra. This album demonstrates the breadth of Finnis’s music to date with world-class ensembles and soloists including the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Britten Sinfonia, BCMG, London Contemporary Orchestra, Víkingur Ólafsson and Mark Simpson, along with conductors who have demonstrated a deep understanding of his music: Ilan Volkov, Richard Baker, Robert Ames and Andrew Gourlay.

Finnis’s compositions are beautiful and iridescent, and explore in detail the potential embodied in each of the instruments he writes for. Two examples of this are the title track The Air, Turning which draws on the idea that music is just vibrating air and the sensation of sound moving around us and Elsewhere, written for violin with reverb, that delicately spins melodic shapes like spiderwebs, with light bowing and whispy flautando effects.

This is a stunning release from a young composer with a unique and compelling soundworld.

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