Edmund Finnis: The Air, Turning

Edmund Finnis: The Air, TurningRelease Date: 8 February 2019 Edmund Finnis is a hugely gifted composer (Sunday Telegraph) and his multifaceted output ranges from intimate music for soloists and duets to immersive electronic pieces, music for film, ensemble and choral music, and works for large orchestra. This album demonstrates the breadth of Finnis' music to date with world class ensembles and soloists including the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Britten Sinfonia, BCMG, London

"Composers and musicians have taken the shape of our breath as an essential structural and expressive shape

Substratum was commissioned by BBC Radio 3

is coupled with the premiere recording of his early cantata The Deluge

Miranda Cuckson

All works were recorded on 29 May 1998 (Memento Vitae) & 13-14 May 1998 at BBC Studio 1

James Wilson’s evocative The Green Fuse is inspired by Dylan Thomas’s poem The force that through the green fuse drives the flower and Julian Joseph’s energetic Carry That Sound combines elements of jazz and blues harmonies

sometimes playful and with continual surprises

Birtwistle's cantata Angel Fighter vividly explores the Biblical story of the struggle between man and divine being from the Book of Genesis

Goehr’s orchestral evocation of Goya’s terrifying painting

Susan Bickley mezzo-soprano

’ International Record Review

To The People for soprano and percussion is in 19 movements