Finnissy: Six Sexy Minuets Three Trios & Other Works / Merrick, Kreutzer Quartet

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Label
Metier
Release Date
October 19, 2018
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      FINNISSY, MICHAEL
    • ORCHESTRA / ENSEMBLE
      Kreutzer Quartet
    • PERFORMER
      Merrick
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      October 19, 2018
    • UPC
      809730858123
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      MSV28581
    • LABEL
      Metier
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Classical
    Works ⌄

    1. I. —

      Composer: Michael Finnissy

      Ensemble: Kreutzer Quartet

    2. II. —

      Composer: Michael Finnissy

      Ensemble: Kreutzer Quartet

    3. III. —

      Composer: Michael Finnissy

      Ensemble: Kreutzer Quartet

    4. IV. —

      Composer: Michael Finnissy

      Ensemble: Kreutzer Quartet

    5. V. Largo tranquillo

      Composer: Michael Finnissy

      Ensemble: Kreutzer Quartet

    6. VI. Vivace assai

      Composer: Michael Finnissy

      Ensemble: Kreutzer Quartet

    7. Contrapunctus XIX

      Composer: Michael Finnissy

      Ensemble: Kreutzer Quartet

    8. I. Poco allegretto

      Composer: Michael Finnissy

      Ensemble: Kreutzer Quartet

      Performer: Linda Merrick

    9. II. Largo appassionato

      Composer: Michael Finnissy

      Ensemble: Kreutzer Quartet

      Performer: Linda Merrick

    10. III. Folklorico: Quasia parlando

      Composer: Michael Finnissy

      Ensemble: Kreutzer Quartet

      Performer: Linda Merrick

    11. IV. Vigoroso

      Composer: Michael Finnissy

      Ensemble: Kreutzer Quartet

      Performer: Linda Merrick

    12. V. A Capriccio

      Composer: Michael Finnissy

      Ensemble: Kreutzer Quartet

      Performer: Linda Merrick

    13. Mad Men in the Sand

      Composer: Michael Finnissy

      Ensemble: Kreutzer Quartet

    14. I. Piuttosto sostenuto

      Composer: Michael Finnissy

      Ensemble: Kreutzer Quartet

    15. II. Grazioso e con dignita

      Composer: Michael Finnissy

      Ensemble: Kreutzer Quartet

    16. III. —

      Composer: Michael Finnissy

      Ensemble: Kreutzer Quartet

    17. IV. Allegretto capriccioso

      Composer: Michael Finnissy

      Ensemble: Kreutzer Quartet

    18. V. Quasi allegretto, un poco minaccioso

      Composer: Michael Finnissy

      Ensemble: Kreutzer Quartet

    19. VI. —

      Composer: Michael Finnissy

      Ensemble: Kreutzer Quartet

    20. VII. Affettato

      Composer: Michael Finnissy

      Ensemble: Kreutzer Quartet

    21. VIII. Adagio - Allegretto

      Composer: Michael Finnissy

      Ensemble: Kreutzer Quartet

    22. IX. Andante malinconico

      Composer: Michael Finnissy

      Ensemble: Kreutzer Quartet


Michael Finnissy is one of the acknowledged geniuses in the field of new music, with a style which can be exceptionally adventurous (and difficult) but almost always retains a tonal core which reveals his myriad influences and inspirations often from folk music and classic literature. Of the current recordings in our catalog, those featuring works for string quartet, with or without other instruments, have been the most regularly popular. Here we welcome back the Kreutzer Quartet, one of London’s premiere ensembles, together with leading clarinetist (and Principal of the Royal Northern College of Music), Linda Merrick. This is the 13th in the Métier Finnissy series, celebrating the work of one of today’s leaders in the new-music world. The album contains the Clarinetten-Liederkreis (‘Clarinet Song Cycle) which features Merrick; the other works are all for string quartet. Included is Finnissy’s ‘continuation’ (not ‘completion!) of Bach’s unfinished final part of The Art of Fugue. A spellbinding and astonishingly perfect piece of four part counterpoint which extends and stretches Bach’s structures.