Finnissy: Gershwin Arrangements, More Gershwin

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One factor that marks these readings out from previous accounts…is the judicious interplay between elements of jazz, even blues, and classical idioms at the time of Gershwin’s (tragically brief)... — Gramophone Magazine, October 2021 More…

Release Date: 28th May 2021
Catalogue No: PCL10218
Label: Piano Classics
Length: 79 minutes

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Gershwin: How Long Has This Been Going On

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Lukas Huisman (piano)

How Long Has This Been Going On? (Arr. M. Finnissy for piano)

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Gershwin: Things Are Looking Up

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Lukas Huisman (piano)

Things Are Looking Up (Arr. M. Finnissy for piano)

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A Foggy Day (Arr. M. Finnissy for piano)

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Gershwin: A Foggy Day (In London Town)

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Lukas Huisman (piano)

Love Is Here to Stay (Arr. M. Finnissy for piano)

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Gershwin: Love Is Here to Stay

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Lukas Huisman (piano)

They Can't Take That Away from Me (Arr. M. Finnissy for piano)

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Gershwin: They Can't Take That Away From Me

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Lukas Huisman (piano)

Shall We Dance? (Arr. M. Finnissy for piano)

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Gershwin: Shall We Dance

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Lukas Huisman (piano)

But Not for Me (Arr. M. Finnissy for piano)

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Gershwin: They're Writing Songs of Love, But Not For Me

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Lukas Huisman (piano)

Fidgety Feet (Arr. M. Finnissy for piano)

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Gershwin: Fidgety Feet

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Lukas Huisman (piano)

Embraceable You (Arr. M. Finnissy for piano)

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Gershwin: Embraceable You

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Lukas Huisman (piano)

Waiting for the Sun to Come Out (Arr. M. Finnissy for piano)

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Gershwin: Waiting for the Sun to Come Out

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Lukas Huisman (piano)

Innocent Ingenue Baby (Arr. M. Finnissy for piano)

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Gershwin: Innocent Ingenue Baby

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Lukas Huisman (piano)

Blah, blah, blah (Arr. M. Finnissy for piano)

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Gershwin: Blah Blah Blah

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Lukas Huisman (piano)

Boy Wanted (Arr. M. Finnissy for piano)

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Gershwin: Boy Wanted

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Lukas Huisman (piano)

Limehouse Nights (Arr. M. Finnissy for piano)

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Gershwin: Limehouse Nights

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Lukas Huisman (piano)

Wait a Bit, Susie (Arr. M. Finnissy for piano)

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Gershwin: Wait a Bit, Susie

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Lukas Huisman (piano)

Lady, be Good!: I'd Rather Charleston (Arr. M. Finnissy for piano)

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Gershwin: I'd Rather Charleston

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Lukas Huisman (piano)

Isn't It Wonderful! (Arr. M. Finnissy for piano)

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Gershwin: Isn't it Wonderful!

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Lukas Huisman (piano)

Nobody but You (Arr. M. Finnissy for piano)

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Gershwin: Nobody But You

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Lukas Huisman (piano)

Swanee (Arr. M. Finnissy for piano)

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Gershwin: Swanee

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Lukas Huisman (piano)

Dixie Rose (Arr. M. Finnissy for piano)

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Gershwin: Dixie Rose

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Lukas Huisman (piano)

Someone Believes in You (Arr. M. Finnissy for piano)

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Gershwin: Someone Believes in You

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Lukas Huisman (piano)

Nashville Nightingale (Arr. M. Finnissy for piano)

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· Michael Finnissy (b. 1946) is one of the most important post-war composers, known for his highly complex music and extreme demands on the performers.

· In his two collections of Gershwin Arrangements Finnissy arranged many of the well-known songs for piano solo. Finnissy grew up often listening to LPs of this music, performed by popular singers as Fred Astaire, Judy Garland, and Ella Fitzgerald. On social occasions and in the jazz dance classes he accompanied early on in his career, he sometimes played these Gershwin songs. Some years later, this led to these wonderful compositions in which Gershwin’s famous melodies are, without serious alterations, recontextualized. The arrangements are rich and detailed with a polyphonic web that is filled with many layers of meaning.

· As Finnissy states, the inversion of mood in so many of these movements is central to his approach: “Tempo and harmony change from fast to slow, light to dark, and vice versa. Forceful sentiments become quite docile. Unbridled joy turns to melancholy. Blithe security is transformed into tense and upsetting ambiguity. Naïve grows cynical. Day changes into night, and girls become boys.” (Finnissy, 2004).

· Belgian pianist Lukas Huisman is one of the most remarkable and original pianists of his generation. From 2012 to 2016 he worked on an artistic doctoral project relating to contemporary complex solo piano music (Ferneyhough, Finnissy, Xenakis, Sorabji) at the School of Arts Ghent/University Ghent. He premièred Sorabji’s Symphonic Nocturne and recorded this monumental piece for solo piano on the Piano Classics label, for which he also recorded the piano music by Takemitsu, which was nominated for the Preis der deutschen Schallplattenkritik

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October 2021

One factor that marks these readings out from previous accounts…is the judicious interplay between elements of jazz, even blues, and classical idioms at the time of Gershwin’s (tragically brief) song-writing career.

2nd May 2021

Huisman’s performances of Finnissy’s two sets of embellishments, explorations, extensions, transformations — these pieces, composed between 1975 and 1990, are all of these things and more — revel in the allure of Finnissy’s skeins of sound.

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