Michael Finnissy: Second and Third String Quartets Howells; Helen-Jane all from the late 1990s

all from the late 1990s

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a Copenhagen carillon (with accompanying ambient street sounds)

Pamela Helen Stephen mezzo-soprano

Monster was recorded at SERC

Michael Finnissy: Second and Third String Quartets Howells; Helen-Jane all from the late 1990sMichael Finnissy's Second Quartet is 'based on a compact Haydn model' originally intended to be the 'Lark', Op. 64, No. 5 and traces of its antecedent can be discerned within it. By contrast, the Third Quartet incorporates actual birdsong, both transcribed and recorded, in the composer's response to the natural world and man's place in it: the instruments gradually fade out, to leave only the sound of birds. AUDIO