Edward Grieg/Michael Finnissy: Piano Quintets

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This is fascinating and fun...The result is entirely convincing with no sense of a point where Grieg ends and Finnissy begins...The transformation is masterly and utterly compelling, as are performance... — BBC Music Magazine, April 2014, 5 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 3rd Feb 2014
Catalogue No: MSV28541
Label: Metier
Length: 59 minutes

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Grieg: Piano Quintet in B Flat Major, EG. 118 (Completed by M. Finnissy)

Work length27:09

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Roderick Chadwick
Kreutzer Quartet

Finnissy: Grieg-Quintettsatz

Work length32:33

Album only

Roderick Chadwick
Kreutzer Quartet

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Grieg wrote roughly 250 bars of a Piano Quintet in his ‘Kladdebok’ (sketchbook), immediately before the revisions that he made to ‘Peer Gynt’ for performances in 1892. This quintet ‘torso’ follows Sonata principles similar to those found in Brahms or Franck. After some general research and experimentation with the material, Finnissy decided to fashion a one movement Kammersymphonie, following on from Grieg’s exposition, As Finnissy had decided to complete the Grieg Piano Quintet in B flat (EG118) as seamlessly, and as closely to the manner of Grieg, as possible, he thought – for fun – that he might shadow that ‘creative journey’ with one that was wholly his own, starting from a virtually identical point, but then diverging at the same moment that he had (in disguise) taken over from Grieg.

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April 2014

This is fascinating and fun...The result is entirely convincing with no sense of a point where Grieg ends and Finnissy begins...The transformation is masterly and utterly compelling, as are performance of both works from the Kreutzer Quartet and pianist Roderick Chadwick.

April 2014

Finnissy is Mr Complexity...But this disc reveals another side of [him. His Grieg Quintettsatz is a passionately composed love letter in sound to Edvard Grieg... I can hear just how fertile the potential of this material must feel to a confirmed Grieg aficionado; and, harmonic muscles flexed, Finnissy takes it on a power workout.

19th January 2014

a remarkable congruence of composers.

Edward Grieg/Michael Finnissy: Piano Quintets

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