Michael Finnissy: Beat Generation Ballads O'Connell; Isabelle Leonard Elschenbroich cello

Leonard Elschenbroich cello

Walter Trampler viola

music for film

Gwilym Simcock

Michael Finnissy: Beat Generation Ballads O'Connell; Isabelle Leonard Elschenbroich celloReleased to celebrate composer Michael Finnissy's seventieth year, Beat Generation Ballads presents the premiere recordings of two of Finnissy's recent major piano works First Political Agenda (1989 2004) and Beat Generation Ballads (2014) both performed by internationally acclaimed pianist, Phillip Thomas. "Listeners who have been following closely the music and development of Michael Finnissy over the past half century, or who are familiar with his