A guide to Michael Finnissy's music

Few composers face up to the creative responsibilities of the freight of musical history as sensitively as this prolific musicianAll articles in this seriesI'm listening to Michael Finnissy's piano music. And my ears and my brain don't know where to start. In particular, I'm listening to Nicolas Hodges' recording of Etched Bright with Sunlight, the final chapter of Finnissy's massive cycle for solo piano, The History of Photography in Sound. The effect it makes is a coruscating brilliance, a daz...

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