Finnissy/ Fraser/ Knoop - Choralvorspiele AEC Video Almost 30 years after it

Almost 30 years after it was recorded

All the above can be easily heard in the harmony and melodies of his sonatas

including new versions of his own "Amen" from A Christmas Symphony which was written for and premiered by soprano Jessye Norman

Rome Streetz

Finnissy/ Fraser/ Knoop - Choralvorspiele AEC Video Almost 30 years after itEnglish composer and pianist Michael Finnissy (b. 1946) has served as a professor at the Royal Academy of Music, the University of Sussex, and is currently Professor of composition at the University of Southampton and Composer in Residence at St. John's College Cambridge. His works for the piano are especially notable for their extreme technique demands. He is concerned with the political aspects of music, and believes that all music is programmatic