Michael Finnissy: Maldon & other choral works
Release Date: 11 April 2005
Label: NMC
Length: 74 minutes
EXAUDI’s debut CD on NMC is a thrillingly intense disc of music by Michael Finnissy. Maldon sets Anglo-Saxon texts of battle for an impressive ensemble of voices (including the baritone soloist Richard Jackson), trombones, organ and percussion; other works feature Michael Finnissy as part of a piano duo (in Vertue) and Howard Skempton on accordion (in the setting of Scots poet William MacGonagall’s travels, Descriptive Jottings of London).
Description
EXAUDI’s debut CD on NMC is a thrillingly intense disc of music by Michael Finnissy. Maldon sets Anglo-Saxon texts of battle for an impressive ensemble of voices (including the baritone soloist Richard Jackson), trombones, organ and percussion; other works feature Michael Finnissy as part of a piano duo (in Vertue) and Howard Skempton on accordion (in the setting of Scots poet William MacGonagall’s travels, Descriptive Jottings of London).
Michael Finnissy Maldon (with Richard Jackson, baritone, and instrumentalists)
Anima Christi (with Daniel Hyde, organ)
Descriptive Jottings of London (with Michael Finnissy, piano, and Howard Skempton, accordion)
Vertue (with Michael Finnissy and Philip Howard, piano)
Forget-me-not (with instrumentalists)
Palm-Sunday (with instrumentalists)
Delivery & returns
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Reviews
“The whole programme is brilliantly performed by the 12-strong EXAUDI ensemble, and the highly atmospheric recording has an ideal clarity.” Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2005
“This is an enthralling disc. From the initial high trombone swoops of Maldon to the final fervent soprano lines of Anima Christi this music grips heart, mind and imagination alike. EXAUDI are stunning advocates, effortlessly beautiful in the skewed strands of Palm Sunday, making calm interjections into the Anglo-Saxon battle narrative of Maldon, and jauntily skipping through Descriptive Jottings of London.” ***** BBC Music Magazine
“EXAUDI perform with hair’s-breadth accuracy, while Richard Jackson is excellent as the narrator of the bloody, tragic tale of the Battle of Maldon.” The Times
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