Michael Finnissy
About Michael Finnissy
Michael Finnissy is an English composer and pianist born in Tulse Hill, London in 1946. Finnissy's own ablilities as a pianist underlie much of his compositions. A significant number of these are piano transcriptions in his very complex style which typically involves irrational musical rhythmic values, virtuosic technique (in the piano pieces) and intricate linear, rather than harmonic, textures. He is often cited as a main member of the so-called New Complexity school, though he does not like the term.
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Top Tracks
Requiem, K. 626: Lacrimosa
How dear to me
Minuet
My Love is Like a Red Red Rose (------)
Polskie Tance, Op. 32, No. 4: Zbójnicki (---------)
Polskie Tance, Op. 32, No. 2: Kozak - Drobny (-----)
Lord Melbourne
Plain Harmony I
My Love Is Like a Red Red Rose
Piano Concerto No. 4
Folklore II
The History of Photography in Sound: I. Le demon de l'analogie
Snowdrift
Willow Willow
3 Dukes Went A-Riding
Videte miraculum
Part one, green meadows
Terekkeme
Part two, midsummer morn
Vieux Noel, Op. 59, No 2
Svatovac
Lylyly li
How Long Has This Been Going On?
The History of Photography in Sound: II. Le reveil de l'intraitable realite
Australian Sea Shanties, Set 2: No. 1. —
Piano Concerto No. 6
Polskie Tance, Op. 32: No. 2. Kozak - Drobny
Things Are Looking Up
Polskie Tance, Op. 32: No. 3. Kujawiak
Polskie Tance, Op. 32: No. 4. Zbojnicki
Green Meadows
Australian Sea Shanties, Set 2: No. 2. —
John the Baptist
The History of Photography in Sound: III. North American Spirituals
Telling
Red Earth
Australian Sea Shanty, Set 2, No. 1 (------)
Verdi Transcriptions: Book 1: III. —
A Foggy Day In London Town
Australian Sea Shanty, Set 2, No. 2 (--------)
Verdi Transcriptions: Book 1: I. —
Part three, I'll give my love a garland
Embraceable You
Love Is Here To Stay
Part eight, come beat the drums and sound the fifes
They Can'T Take That Away From Me
The History of Photography in Sound: IV. My parents' generation thought War meant something
Piano Concerto No. 3
Verdi Transcriptions: Book 1: II. —
The History of Photography in Sound: VI. Seventeen Immortal Homosexual Poets
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