Mtier presents a landmark 4-disc box set from pianist Ian Pace in commanding performances of music by composerMichael Finnissy (b. 1946). Finnissy is widely regarded as one of Britains most important living composers. Pace, one of the leading interpreters of Finnissys work, presents an album focused around Finnissys epic cycle for piano, the Verdi Transcriptions, alongside the second complete recording (after the composers own) of the iconic English Country-Tunes, and works inspired by music of the late-18th and 19th. The result is a broad view of Finnishs extensive output of piano music in relation to romantic aesthetics. The album is released in anticipation of the Mtier labels upcoming celebrations of Michael Finnissys 80th birthday in 2026. Finnissys four-book cycle of Verdi Transcriptions re-imagines Verdis operas through a modern lens. As Finnissy states in his liner notes, Transcribing sound into a written form (notation) involves making signicant choices. The choices can colour the ongoing exploration of that sound as composition. The result of those choices is a monumental, late-Romantic epic.