Birmingham Contemporary Music Group
19) The air, turning
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The music of Oxford-based British composer Edmund Finnis (b. 1984) will be new to many, and this NMC release is in the nature of a sampler, with several different ensembles performing. Finnis' music is sparse but not minimalist, always in motion but made up of glassy, hypnotic surfaces. His language can be inflected toward representations of nature (the title work is inspired by a poem about wind) or toward more abstract patterns, but a common personality...