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Michael Finnissy

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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.

Top songs

  1. Requiem, K. 626: Lacrimosa
  2. How dear to me
  3. Minuet
  4. My Love is Like a Red Red Rose (------)
  5. Polskie Tance, Op. 32, No. 4: Zbójnicki (---------)
  6. Polskie Tance, Op. 32, No. 2: Kozak - Drobny (-----)
  7. Lord Melbourne
  8. Plain Harmony I
  9. My Love Is Like a Red Red Rose
  10. Piano Concerto No. 4
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  1. Folklore II
  2. The History of Photography in Sound: I. Le demon de l'analogie
  3. Snowdrift
  4. Part one, green meadows
  5. 3 Dukes Went A-Riding
  6. Willow Willow
  7. Terekkeme
  8. Videte miraculum
  9. Part two, midsummer morn
  10. Vieux Noel, Op. 59, No 2
  11. Svatovac
  12. Lylyly li
  13. How Long Has This Been Going On?
  14. The History of Photography in Sound: II. Le reveil de l'intraitable realite
  15. Piano Concerto No. 6
  16. Australian Sea Shanties, Set 2: No. 1. —
  17. Things Are Looking Up
  18. Polskie Tance, Op. 32: No. 2. Kozak - Drobny
  19. Green Meadows
  20. Polskie Tance, Op. 32: No. 3. Kujawiak
  21. Polskie Tance, Op. 32: No. 4. Zbojnicki
  22. The History of Photography in Sound: III. North American Spirituals
  23. Australian Sea Shanties, Set 2: No. 2. —
  24. Red Earth
  25. John the Baptist
  26. Telling
  27. A Foggy Day In London Town
  28. Part three, I'll give my love a garland
  29. Australian Sea Shanty, Set 2, No. 1 (------)
  30. Verdi Transcriptions: Book 1: III. —
  31. Part eight, come beat the drums and sound the fifes
  32. Australian Sea Shanty, Set 2, No. 2 (--------)
  33. Verdi Transcriptions: Book 1: I. —
  34. Embraceable You
  35. Piano Concerto No. 3
  36. Love Is Here To Stay
  37. They Can'T Take That Away From Me
  38. The History of Photography in Sound: IV. My parents' generation thought War meant something
  39. Plain Harmony II
  40. Part seven, my bonny boy
  41. Part four, May and December
  42. Verdi Transcriptions: Book 1: II. —
  43. Part six, the seds of love
  44. The History of Photography in Sound: VI. Seventeen Immortal Homosexual Poets
  45. Svatovac (-------)
  46. Part five, lies and marvels
  47. Gesualdo: Libro Sesto: I
  48. How Dear to Me (-----)
  49. Dum transisset Sabbatum
  50. Terekkeme (-----)
  51. Second String Quartet
  52. Nobody's Jig
  53. Derridas: Jacques Derrida goes to a nightclub
  54. Stabant Autem Iuxta Crucem
  55. The History of Photography in Sound: V. Alkan - Paganini
  56. Gershwin Arrangements: No. 1. How long has this been going on?
  57. Willow Willow (-------)
  58. Shall We Dance?
  59. Plain Harmony III
  60. Lies And Marvels
  61. Verdi Transcriptions: Book 1: IV. —
  62. Midsummer Morn
  63. Dilok
  64. James Duke son of John Duke (---------)
  65. Three Preludes: Prelude No. 1
  66. They'Re Writing Songs Of Love, But Not For Me
  67. Vieux Nöel, Op. 59 No. 2 (-------)
  68. 20th Century Music
  69. Derridas: Jacques Derrida Goes to a Massage Parlour
  70. WAM
  71. May And December
  72. Stanley Stokes, East Street 1836
  73. Blah, Blah, Blah
  74. Gesualdo, Libro Sesto: 1. —
  75. I'll Give My Love A Garland
  76. Sehnsucht
  77. Verdi Transcriptions: Book 1: V. —
  78. The Seeds Of Love
  79. Runnin' Wild
  80. Fidgety Feet
  81. Reels
  82. Verdi Transcriptions: Book 1: VII. —
  83. Three Preludes: Prelude No. 2
  84. The History of Photography in Sound: VII. Eadweard Muybridge - Edvard Munch
  85. Verdi Transcriptions, Book I: No. 1, Sciagurata! A questo lido ricercai l'amante infido
  86. Multiple Forms of Constraint
  87. Moon's goin' down
  88. Kulamen Dilan
  89. Herr Christ, der einge Gottessohn: IV. ‘O Wunderkraft der Liebe’
  90. Gershwin Arrangements: No. 5. They can't take that away from me

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