IDAGIO | Grieg: Piano Quintet in B Flat Major, EG. 118 - Finnissy: Grieg-Quintettsatz 809730854125

Featuring

Roderick Chadwick
Peter Sheppard Skærved
Mihailo Trandafilovski
Morgan Goff
Neil Heyde
Kreutzer Quartet

Edvard Grieg
Michael Finnissy

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Performer Biography

The Kreutzer Quartet, featured on this recording, are the dedicatees of hundreds of new works by a wide range of contemporary composers.

Compositional Technique

Michael Finnissy's completion of Grieg's Piano Quintet incorporates elements like a scherzo that imitates Hardanger fiddle music and a ruminative slow movement in the style of Grieg's 'Poetic Tone-pictures'.

Composer's Artistic Vision

Michael Finnissy's 'Grieg Quintettsatz' draws on folk-tunes from Ludvig Mathias Lindeman's 'Aeldre og nyere norske fjeldmelodier' and Wagnerian rhetoric, specifically from 'The Valkyrie', reflecting influences Grieg himself experienced.

Composition History

Michael Finnissy also composed his own 'Grieg Quintettsatz' as a companion piece, starting from a similar point as Grieg's fragment but then diverging to explore his own creative journey.

Composition History

Edvard Grieg's Piano Quintet in B flat major (EG 118) is an unfinished work, existing as approximately 250 bars in his sketchbook, which forms the exposition of a first movement.

Composition History

Composer Michael Finnissy completed Grieg's unfinished Piano Quintet, fashioning it into a one-movement Kammersymphonie that includes a scherzo and a slow movement.

Composer Biography

Michael Finnissy, born in London in 1946, began writing music and playing piano at age four and a half, tutored by his great aunt, Rose Louise Hopwood.