Forrest Eimold - Michael Finnissy- Organ Works (2025) [Official Digital Download 24/96]

Ahead of the 80th birthday of one of Britain’s most singular compositional voices, this double album presents the complete organ works of Michael Finnissy—a body of music as rich in intellectual depth as it is in imagination. Performed with careful nuance by acclaimed American organist Forrest Eimold, these works span over six decades and chart the evolution of a composer constantly challenging himself to think beyond presumed forms.

At the heart of the collection are Finnissy’s four Organ Symphonies: bold, searching works that pay homage to—and wrestle with—the legacies of Beethoven, Brahms, Bruckner and Mahler, while also evoking the French organ tradition of Vierne and Widor. “Why even write a Symphony?” Finnissy asks in a personal note for this release. “To explore and learn. To challenge oneself with the abiding presence of awe-inspiring history… to locate a rhetoric which fearlessly approaches the ‘higher world of knowledge.’”

TRACKLIST

1. Forrest Eimold - Organ Symphony No. 1
2. Forrest Eimold - 7 Hymn-Tune Preludes: No. 1, —
3. Forrest Eimold - 7 Hymn-Tune Preludes: No. 2, —
4. Forrest Eimold - 7 Hymn-Tune Preludes: No. 3, —
5. Forrest Eimold - 7 Hymn-Tune Preludes: No. 4, —
6. Forrest Eimold - 7 Hymn-Tune Preludes: No. 5, —
7. Forrest Eimold - 7 Hymn-Tune Preludes: No. 6, —
8. Forrest Eimold - 7 Hymn-Tune Preludes: No. 7, —
9. Forrest Eimold - Organ Symphony No. 2
10. Forrest Eimold - Organ Symphony No. 3: I. Largo
11. Forrest Eimold - Organ Symphony No. 3: II. Prestissimo-frenetico
12. Forrest Eimold - Organ Symphony No. 3: III. Andante
13. Forrest Eimold - …ere the set of sun…
14. Forrest Eimold - Xunthaeresis
15. Forrest Eimold - Blackburn
16. Forrest Eimold - Organ Symphony No. 4



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