Finnis
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Edmund Finnis: The Air, Turning
Eloisa-Fleur Thorn (violin), Mark Simpson (clarinet), Víkingur Ólafsson (piano), Benjamin Bellman (violin)
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Birmingham Contemporary Music Group, London Contemporary Orchestra, Britten Sinfonia, Ilan Volkov, Richard Baker, Andrew Gourlay
The music of Edmund Finnis invites rather than demands attention – and the more it is given, the more its gifts unfold… Each work on this exquisite debut disc is, in effect, a constantly changing... —
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2020, Winner - Premiere
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Clare O'Connell: Light Flowing
Clare O'Connell (cello), Eleanor Turner (harp), Marianne Schofield (double bass)
The album is framed by two short triptychs by Edmund Finnis: Three Solos has echoes of Bach in the double-stops of the first movement, before a more restless exploration of pizzicato in the... —
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The golden, singing tone of Sheku Kanneh-Mason’s cello hits us the moment this dauntingly eclectic album begins. —
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A cycle of ten miniatures, the piece was commissioned by pianist Clare Hammond, who matches perfectly their balance of wonder, reflection and playful flashes of heat in coolly compressed, ambiguous... —
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International Classical Music Awards, 2025, Nominated - Contemporary Music
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There are some more unusual choices and I think that’s what makes this disc really fascinating. (Francois Xavier-Roth) is someone who is trying to shake things up and I think a major force is... —
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The digitised sheen to 12 Ensemble’s conductorless string sound works well for the more recent works, but I miss raw and gritty emotion in the Strauss. —
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NMC at 35
Onyx Brass (brass ensemble), Sandrine Piau (soprano), Jane Manning (soprano), Roger Smalley, Cevanne Horrocks-Hopayian, Ziazan, Mark Padmore (tenor), Richard Watkins (horn), Huw Watkins (piano), Thomas Hewitt Jones, Ruby Philogene, Lawrence Zazzo, Timothy Dawkins, Philip Sheffield, Jeremy Huw Williams...
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Do not be fooled by the music’s seeming inactivity, for the insubstantiality [of Finnis's Devotions] is a mirage, the inner workings, derived from the ‘Heiliger Dankegesang’ movement of Beethoven’s... —
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New Music Show
Paul Silverthorne (viola), Michael Thompson (horn), Enno Senft (double bass) & Sound Intermedia (live electronics), Leigh Melrose (baritone)
Nicholas Collon
Candlebird is a song-cycle whose wide range of moods is posited in the contrast between a vocal line of notable restraint and ensemble writing that often threatens to take over the foreground:... —
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