Browse: Metier (label)

Anyone thinking that the sacred choral genre calls for a dilution of Michael Finnissy’s musical focus is in for a surprise. Idiomatically conceived, these motets traverse a variety of liturgical... — Gramophone Magazine More…

distinctive, pungent music that demands close attention — The Guardian More…

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…

A musical marathon through the composer’s complete piano music. Pace and Smith certainly keep you on your toes with their agile and pin-sharp accounts of this complex and arresting music. — BBC Music Magazine, June 2021, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Much of Set for Piano is abrasively, wantonly tonal - abrasive in the sense that Craven's tonality is literal and daringly untreated; triads shocking in their nakedness...He cuts across stylistic... — Gramophone Magazine, January 2013 More…