Michael Finnissy
Ivan Hewett presents the world premiere performance of Michael Finnissy's The Transgressive Gospel from the 2009 Spitalfields Festival, plus conversation with the composer.
Ivan Hewett presents the world premiere performance of a work by Michael Finnissy given at the 2009 Spitalfields Festival, as well as conversation with the composer. Between the two halves of the piece, composer Alwynne Pritchard gives an appreciation of this work in relation to Finnissy's substantial oeuvre.
The Transgressive Gospel follows the story of Christ's Passion, using passages from Tyndale's English translation of the Gospel of St Mark, interspersed with blues-inflected settings of George Herbert's metaphysical poems and texts by Rimbaud and others.
Michael Finnissy: The Transgressive Gospel (world premiere)
Kate Westbrook and Richard Jackson (vocals)
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Kirsten LeStrange (violin)
Daniel Palmizio (viola)
Michael Finnissy (conductor)
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