Finch: Inner Landscapes: Piano and Chamber Music 1984-2013

Release Date: 15th Jul 2016
Catalogue No: PFCD040
Label: Prima Facie
Length: 70 minutes

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Finch, D: Ruins

Work length9:35

Aleksander Szram, Lisa Nelsen, Mieko Kanno
Recorded: 31 July - 2 August 2014
Recording Venue: Blackheath Concert Halls, United Kingdom

I. Gently Flowing

Track length1:48

II. Calm

Track length1:32

III. Quick March

Track length1:10

IV. Slow March

Track length1:27

V. Gently Flowing

Track length3:38

Finch, D: Lyric

Work length8:10

Aleksander Szram

Finch, D: Fantasy on a Russian Folksong

Work length15:24

Aleksander Szram, Caroline Szram, Toby Tramaseur

Finch, D: Summer

Work length2:16

Aleksander Szram, Caroline Szram

Finch, D: Three Chorales: I. —

Work length3:55

Aleksander Szram

Finch, D: Landscape III

Work length7:01

Aleksander Szram, Mieko Kanno

Finch, D: Ucluelet (Landscape IV)

Work length7:02

Aleksander Szram

Finch, D: Three Chorales: II. —

Work length3:36

Aleksander Szram

Finch, D: Lamentations

Work length10:02

Aleksander Szram, Lisa Nelsen, Mieko Kanno

Finch, D: Three Chorales: III. —

Work length4:49

Aleksander Szram

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The first ever recording of Douglas Finch's piano and chamber music, 'Inner Landscapes: Piano and Chamber Music 1984-2013' offers an exquisite and compelling portrait of this important Canadian-British composer.

'Inner Landscapes' draws upon the art of the Canadian painter, Emily Carr, whose work features on the CD's cover. In particular, the feelings of “loneliness and quiet rapture” in her paintings drew Finch in, revealing his affinity with the themes of solitude, mourning and spiritual longing. The ten works on this disc each capture an 'inner world' of a particular landscape - in Canada, Germany, North Wales and New York. Douglas Finch is a renowned improviser and pianist as well as composer, and most pieces on this debut CD grew out of ideas resulting from his improvisations.

Performed by the Canadian flautist Lisa Nelsen (“a flautist and a half” - The Times newspaper), the pianist Aleksander Szram, cellist Caroline Szram, and the violinists Mieko Kanno and Toby Tramaseur, the music spans Finch's compositional output from his early 20s, when he lived in Canada, to the present, after he moved to the UK in 1993.

“This music is inward-looking and deeply personal, though the world it looks into is cavernous, elusive and unending, a sound-world quite unlike any that I have so far encountered.” Aleksander Szram, piano.

Finch: Inner Landscapes

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