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Michael Finnissy - Sorrow and its Beauty

from PEP (Piano and Erhu Project) Vol. 3 by Corey Hamm, piano; Nicole Ge Li, erhu

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MICHAEL FINNISSY (UK)
Sorrow and its Beauty (2017) (written for PEP)

“I was delighted by Corey Hamm’s invitation to contribute to the PEP (Piano and Erhu Project), as I have always tried to bring different cultures, genres, historicisms and assumptions into resonant and meaningful contact with each other.

The contact here is not just ’sonic’ (archetypal Chinese and Western-European instruments), but ‘textural’: sequences of mostly slow-moving chords (suggestive of the ‘ancient’ contemplative traditions of the Russian Orthodox and Hebrew church, or slow-moving hymnody generally); in combination with a specific set of ‘Divertissements chinois’ transcribed by Joseph-Marie Amiot in Peking in 1776, and published in Paris 1779-80.

Indeed the piano should in no way ‘accompany’ the erhu, but exist in the same ‘dimension’, and at the same dynamic and level of significance, as the erhu. Their encounter is discursive, not dramatic, an overlapping exchange of equals.

The title alludes to the passing (and destruction or ignorance) of History. We should celebrate the past, rather than shrouding it in melancholy.” - Michael Finnissy

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from PEP (Piano and Erhu Project) Vol. 3, released June 5, 2020

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