Lotte Betts-Dean, Joseph Havlat, Marsyas Trio – Michael Finnissy: Alternative Readings (2024) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44,1kHz]

Lotte Betts-Dean, Joseph Havlat, Marsyas Trio – Michael Finnissy: Alternative Readings (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:16:27 minutes | 665 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Métier

Introducing “Michael Finnissy – Alternative Readings,” a recording that brings together the visionary compositions of Michael Finnissy, one of the foremost composers of our time, and the exceptional artistry of the Marsyas Trio, mezzo-soprano Lotte Betts-Dean, and pianist Joseph Havlat. Finnissy’s distinguished career, marked by British Composer Awards, prestigious teaching positions, and a Koussevitzky Foundation commission, is a testament to his unparalleled ability to weave together diverse musical idioms, embracing inspiration from literature, poetry, visual art, and global folk traditions.

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LSO Percussion Ensemble, Joseph Havlat and Philip Moore – John Adams: Roll Over Beethoven (2019) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

LSO Percussion Ensemble, Joseph Havlat and Philip Moore – John Adams: Roll Over Beethoven (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 22:13 minutes | 404 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © LSO Live

A duo of pianists from the London Symphony Orchestra’s percussion ensemble present the world premiere recording of Roll Over Beethoven by John Adams. Roll Over Beethoven pays homage to the electric vitality of Beethoven’s intensely physical, expressive world, and takes fragments from his Diabelli Variations and the Piano Sonata No. 31 Opus 110 and transforms them in the unique black box of Adams’ own musical language. In only twenty short minutes, Adams manages to generate an absorbing structure that, in his words, ‘takes these tiny musical fractals through a grand tour of a harmonic and rhythmic hall of mirrors.

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