Ian Pace - Music for Piano Played By Ian Pace - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Métier presents a landmark 4-disc box set from pianist Ian Pace in commanding performances of music by composer Michael Finnissy (b. 1946). Finnissy is widely regarded as one of Britain's most important living composers. Pace, one of the leading interpreters of Finnissy's work, presents an album focused around Finnissy's epic cycle for piano, The Verdi Transcriptions, alongside the second complete recording (after the composer's own) of the iconic English Country-Tunes, and works inspired by music of the late-18th and 19th centuries. The result is a broad view of Finnissy's extensive output of piano music in relation to Romantic aesthetics. The album is released in anticipation of the Métier tag's upcoming celebrations of Michael Finnissy's 80th birthday in 2026. Finnissy's four-book cycle of Verdi Transcriptions reimagines Verdi's operas through a modern lens. As Finnissy states in his liner notes InchTranscribing sound into a written form (notation) involves making significant choices. The choices can color the ongoing exploration of that sound as 'composition.'Inch The result of those choices is a monumental, late-Romantic epic. Finnissy's English Country-Tunes has long been considered one of his signature and most technically demanding cycles. There is a similar line of composition through transcription as The Verdi Transcriptions, only in these works the source material is English folk music. Written in celebration of Queen Elizabeth II's Silver Jubilee, the work can also be seen as a commentary on the spirit of British patriotism at the time. Ian Pace's readings reflect decades of study he first performed English Country-Tunes in the 1990s and has played Finnissy's complete piano oeuvre in cycles (1996 and 2016). The set includes extensive liner notes by both Pace and Finnissy, offering rare insight into the compositional ideas and performance choices behind t

Album Tracks 1. Intro (Dystopia) 2. Gasoline 3. [Untranslated] 4. Addiction 5. Fade Out 6. Dark Light 7. Candy Shop 8. Rewind 9. [Untranslated] 10. Forever and One

Walter Zimmermann is a leading figure in German new music, a prolific composer and a tireless advocate of other artists' work.-deserving to be much better known, his works, set in a deceptively simple way, are best heard in groups so as to emphasize his rich and coherent personal style.-performed by leading British interpreter of contemporary music, Ian Pace and recorded in the composer's presence. Album Tracks 1. Prologue. Five Momente I'm Leben Des Franz Schubert (Five Moments in the 2. Prologue. Five Momente I'm Leben Des Franz Schubert (Five Moments in the 3. Prologue. Five Momente I'm Leben Des Franz Schubert (Five Moments in the 4. Prologue. Five Momente I'm Leben Des Franz Schubert (Five Moments in the 5. Prologue. Five Momente I'm Leben Des Franz Schubert (Five Moments in the 6. I. Leave the Old. 1. Gather Everything 7. I. Leave the Old. 2. Follow the Yardsticks 8. I. Leave the Old. 3. Go Wrong 9. I. Leave the Old. 4. Lose Yourself 10. I. Leave the Old. 5. Destroy What's Around 11. I. Leave the Old. 6. Forget What You've Done 12. I. Leave the Old. 7. Accept the Past 13. I. Leave the Old. 8. Discover the Now 14. I. Leave the Old. 9. Become the Spur of the Moment 15. I. Leave the Old. 10. Be Self-Sufficient 16. II. Clean the Mind. 11. Let Images Come and Go 17. II. Clean the Mind. 12. Find Perfect Existence Throught Imperfect Exist 18. II. Clean the Mind. 13. Change Mindweeds Into Mental Nourishment 19. II. Clean the Mind. 14. Limit Your Activity 20. II. Clean the Mind. 15. Dissolve Obstacles By Constancy 21. II. Clean the Mind. 16. Burn Yourself Completely 22. II. Clean the Mind. 17. Create from Emptiness 23. II. Clean the Mind. 18. Continue in Calmness 24. II. Clean the Mind. 19. Move the Swinging Door 25. II. Clean the Mind. 20. Repeat It Over and Over Again 26. III. Alter the Consciousness. 21. Adapt Yo