M Finnissy's English Country Tunes - Midsummer Morn Audio + Sheet Music

[TheScriabin]

Knowing his sense of humour, I have a feeling the 'Justin Bieber farts in interview' in the related videos section would make Mr Finnissy howl with laughter.

[TheScriabin]

I'd love to see someone try to input that into Sibelius 6

[ukdavepianoman]

@guitareben I said "quite conventional". Anyway tuplets have been used a long time before this piece was written. I'd love to try to play the "wild" section:-)

[ukdavepianoman]

very curious piece, quite conventional to start with. Then it erupts into this violent section which appears extremely difficult to play. Seems as though the hands have to fly in all directions at once. It does have very distinctive moods which makes the piece more approachable.

[Guitareben]

@ukdavepianoman It's not conventional to start :o look at the tuplets (though i would agree that it isn't super mental and atonal etc :D )

[efmusic5]

I like the transition from calm to stormy.

[Derpadoo]

Difficult doesn't imply good.

[wetuadjlv]

@Derpadoo Luckily, the music isn't just pure difficulty

[marcphilos]

The first two minutes of this movement is probably the most musicality you will get out of this piece.

[xodn3300]

my favorite from the set!

[hadsell1962]

Its difficult to define difficulty. Hard to read does not mean hard to play. Playing 6 trills at once is easy to read - hard to do. The difficulty mainly lies in the reading and learning - not only in the playing.

[lovesGenet]

This music does what we encounter in great literature. The wistful remembrance of the beginning then overwhelmed by something memory,mania,loss is amazing. How so many people can not hear music past the 20's I don't undersatand.When we see a cartton or painting we get it. This is memorable and divine. I love this . Feldman can help one get to this place!

[lovesGenet]

This one is really beautiful textures and rather tonal chords. Finnissy is really wonderful .The long solos of the piano concerti blew me away. Vocal music must hear!

[fremsley001]

Following a path first laid by Percy Grainger and the Rural Complexitists (Country Garden Rant, 1931; I Will Slay Thee of a Summer's Morn, 1935), Finnissy has found rich fruit upon a rock face. Chord clusters piled one upon the other pay tribute to Cowell, Grainger and Crush (Robert), yet evoke a post-Crushian haste and unpredictability not heard since Barbara Windsor's ('Pendulous Melons') Piano Sonata No. 5 (1997) ....

[xodn3300]

how good do you have to be to tackle pieces like this??

[stanchinsky]

Thank you so much for uploading this with the score.

[kastlesucksTDOTS]

HEY! the begining has a kind of melody-ish-ness

[lendallpitts]

Great, and thanks to the poster for having the generosity and the patience to share the score.

[JoyCeLy4ev]

this is the most,extemely difficult piece that i ve never seen before!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[khbsflabhklsrblfauhk]

Shit, you can say that again.

[f1f1s]

Sorabji mutated? =)

[framaulo]

I won't never understand and enjoy that kind of stuff ...

but thanks for sharing!!

[maydengarNSBHS]

where does one get the sheet music

[japanesesweet]

UMP are the music publishers