Michael Finnissy's Verdi Transcriptions for Piano

Michael Finnissy
Verdi Transcriptions

Following the remarkable success of Michael Finnissy’s The History of Photography in Sound performed here at the JdP by Ian Pace in 2014, tonight’s concert features a definitive performance from JdP-featured-pianist Jonathan Powell of the same composer’s extraordinary Verdi Transcriptions. Composed over a period of thirty years and culminating in the powerful final transfiguration of Verdi’s Requiem Aeternam, the Verdi Transcriptions is one of Finnissy’s most powerful and satisfying works for solo piano.