Folk Song Set
Michael Finnissy

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Above Earth's Shadow...
Afar
Aijal
Alice
All The Trees They Are So High
All.Fall.Down
Alongside
Andimironnai
Anima Christi
Anninnia
As When Upon A Tranced Summer Night
Australian Sea Shanties
Autumnall
Banumbirr
Beuk O'Newcassel Sangs, A
Boogie-Woogie
Botany Bay
Bouffe
BS
Cabaret vert
Can't Help Lovin' Dat Man
Catana
Celi
Cibavit eos
Cipriano
Circle, Chorus And Formal Act
Cirit
Commedia dell'incomprehensibile potere che ...
Contretanze
De toute flours
Delal
Dilok
Dormeur du val, Le
Doves Figary
Duru-Duru
East London Heys
Enek
English Country-Tunes
Eph-phatha
Eureka Flag, The
Evening
Fairest Noonday
Fast Dances, Slow Dances
First Sign A Sharp White Moon As If The Cause...
Folk Song Set
Freightrain Bruise
From The Revelations Of Saint John The Divine
Gerhana
Gershwin Arrangements
GFH
Goro
Grainger
Green Bushes
G.F.H.
Haiyim
Hikkai
Hinomi
Horrorzone
How Dear To Me
In Stiller Nacht
Independence Quadrilles
Ives
Jazz
Jisei
Kagami-Jishi
Kelir
Kemp's Morris
Keroiylu
Lay de la Fonteinne, Le
Liz
Lord Melbourne
Lost Lands
Lylyly Li
Lyrics And Limericks
Marrngu
Mazurka
Mine Eye Awake
Mississippi Hornpipes
Moon's Goin' Down
More Gershwin
Mountainfall
Mr.Punch
My Love Is Like A Red Red Rose
Mysteries 1
Mysteries 2
Mysteries 3
Mysteries 4
Mysteries 5
Mysteries 6
Mysteries 8
Nancarrow
Nasiye
Ngano
Nobody's Jig
Obrecht-Motetten I
Obrecht-Motetten II
Offshore
Ohi! Ohi! Ohi!
Ouraa
Pathways Of Sun And Stars
Pavasiya
Piano Concerto no. 2
Piano Concerto no. 3
Piano Concerto no. 5
Piano Concerto no. 6
Piano Concerto no. 7
Pimmel
Red Earth
Reels
Ru Tchou
Runnin' Wild
Sea And Sky
Sepevi
Seven Sacred Motets
Short But ...
Sikangnuqa
Sir Tristran
Snowdrift
Sometimes I ...
Song 1
Song 2
Song 4
Song 9
Song 12
Song 14
Song 15
Song 16
Stanley Stokes, East Street 1836
Stomp
Strauss-Walzer
String Quartet
String Trio
Taja
Tango
Teangi
Terekkeme
To And Fro
Tom Fool's Wooing
Transformations Of The Vampire
Tsuru-Kame
Two of Us
Two Pasodobles
Ulpirra
Undivine Comedy, The
Unknown Ground
Untitled Piece
Vanen
Various Nations
Vaudeville
Videtis enim interiorem
Warara
Warara
Wee Saw Footprints
White Rain
Whitman
William Billings
World
Yalli
Rossini
Therese Raquin
Folklore 3
Folklore 4
Plain Harmony I
Mars + Venus
Nowhere else to go
Obrecht-Motetten IV
Obrecht-Motetten V
Cambridge Codex, The
Same As We
Same As We
Three Motets for soprano and strings
Two Motets
WAM
Folklore 1
Folklore 2
Silver Morning
New Perpectives On Old Complexity
Stabant autem iuxta crucem
Songs From The Exotic (on the rocks)
### A Happy Melancholia
Glad Day
Shameful Vice
Sefauchi's Return
John Cage
Song 5
Song 6
Song 7
n
On The Rocks
Folklore 1-4
Triptych
Verdi Transcriptions
Free Setting
Obrecht-Motetten III
Traum des SŠngers
Vertue
Nine Romantics
Kulamen Dilan
Quabara
Anima Christi
Australian Sea Shanties (Third Set)
Golden Sleep
Maldon
Yvaropera 5
Alkan-Paganini
Juvenilia
Pour Les Agrements
Selected Movements of Great Masters
O quam glorifica luce
Iam me certa manent
French Piano
Terekkeme
Vieux Noel
Romeo & Juliet are drowning
Mazurka
Willow willow
Australian Sea Shanties (Second Set)
There never was such hard times before
Wenn wir in hšchsten Nšthen sind
Cozy Fanny's Tootsies
A solis ortus cardine
Svatovac
Larger Heart, the Kindlier Hand, The
...desde que nae...
Cry of the Prophet Zephaniah, The
Dust In The Road
###The Grateful and the Dead
Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis
I'm on my Way
Song 17
Plain Harmony II
Plain Harmony III
Sehnsucht
Multiple Forms of Constraint
Three Dukes Went A-Riding
Polskie Tance 1 - 4
Not Afraid
False Notations of Progress
Tango
Palm-Sunday
Elephant
What the Meadow Flowers Tell Me
Ethel Smyth
Honky Blues
Tracey and Snowy in Koln
Two Mazurkas
Romance (with Intermezzo)
Poor Stuff
Etched Bright with Sunlight
Unsere Afrikareise
Eadweard Muybridge - Edvard Munch
Seventeen Immortal Homosexual Poets
North American Spirituals
My parents' generation thought War meant something
Two Uncharacteristic Marches with a Trio
Two Songs
Tangos 1-20
Casual Nudity
Uzundara
Kritik der Urteilskraft
Shady Love
Regen beschreiben
Confusion in the Service of Discovery
Kreuzfidel-Polka
D'Woaldbuama
Vertue
Judgement in that Day
Necessary and more detailed thinking
Ettelijke bange eenden
Piano Concerto no. 4
Untitled Piece
Motets for soprano and strings
Un Chant/d'Amour PAR/JEAN GENET
Bright Future Ignoring Dark Past
Recent Britain
Speak Its Name!
Different Things
Greatest Hits of All Time
L'Herbe
Forget-Me-Not
Descriptive Jottings of London
Edward
Salome
Seterjentens Fridag
Quelle
Post-Christian Survival Kit
Molly-House
Cantet nunc aula caelestium
Giant Abstract Samba
Wild Flowers
Back on Earth
### talks (with Michael Sholomwitz) to Sarah Walker
Venice Vipers
Voluala
Vigany's Cabinet
Whitman
Favourite Poets
Brighton!
Telling

Instrumentation

Cello
1
Clarinet
1
Cor anglais
1
Double bass
1
Flute
1
Percussion
1
Soprano
1
Viola
1
Violin
2

Additional Information

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Details

Revised version 1976
Year
Publisher
Universal Edition
Minutes
12

Recordings

Date recorded
8.2.1983
Performers
Elaine Barry (m-sop), London Sinfonietta/Knussen
Recording format id
9
Venue
Queen Elizabeth Hall
Date recorded
8.2.1983
Performers
Elaine Barry (msop), London Sinfonietta/Knussen
Recording format id
1
Venue
Queen Elizabeth Hall
Performers
Suoraan Ensemble
Recording format id
1
Date recorded
8.10.1987
Performers
Elaine Barry (msop), Expose
Recording format id
1
Record company
BBC