Michael Finnissy: Beat Generation Ballads; First Political Agenda CD review – superb tribute to his piano music

Philip Thomas(Huddersfield Contemporary Records)For anyone who wants to get a sense of the range and density of the teeming output of Michael Finnissy, 70 this year, his piano music is as a good place as any to start. It’s music that can be overwhelmingly complex and forbidding, tenderly sentimental, or frankly autobiographical. And it is strewn with allusions and references to a range of other periods and styles. Those characteristics and qualities are on display in the two large-scale w...

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