{"id":1744,"date":"2021-02-12T15:43:44","date_gmt":"2021-02-12T15:43:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sarahmfarmer.com\/?post_type=avada_portfolio&#038;p=1744"},"modified":"2021-02-25T10:21:40","modified_gmt":"2021-02-25T10:21:40","slug":"michael-finnissy-judith-weir","status":"publish","type":"avada_portfolio","link":"https:\/\/sarahmfarmer.com\/index.php\/portfolio-item\/michael-finnissy-judith-weir\/","title":{"rendered":"Michael Finnissy &#8211; Judith Weir"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div id=\"video\" class=\"fusion-container-anchor\"><div class=\"fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box fusion-builder-row-1 fusion-flex-container nonhundred-percent-fullwidth non-hundred-percent-height-scrolling\" style=\"--awb-border-radius-top-left:0px;--awb-border-radius-top-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-left:0px;--awb-padding-top:2%;--awb-padding-right:8%;--awb-padding-bottom:2%;--awb-flex-wrap:wrap;\" ><div class=\"fusion-builder-row fusion-row fusion-flex-align-items-flex-start fusion-flex-content-wrap\" style=\"max-width:83.2%;margin-left: calc(-4% \/ 2 );margin-right: calc(-4% \/ 2 );\"><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-0 fusion_builder_column_1_3 1_3 fusion-flex-column fusion-flex-align-self-stretch\" style=\"--awb-bg-size:cover;--awb-width-large:33.333333333333%;--awb-margin-top-large:20px;--awb-spacing-right-large:5.76%;--awb-margin-bottom-large:20px;--awb-spacing-left-large:5.76%;--awb-width-medium:100%;--awb-order-medium:0;--awb-spacing-right-medium:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-medium:1.92%;--awb-width-small:100%;--awb-order-small:0;--awb-spacing-right-small:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-small:1.92%;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-column-has-shadow fusion-flex-justify-content-flex-start fusion-content-layout-column\"><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-1 caption\"><p>Performed at BBC Proms 2015 Composer&#8217;s Portrait concert<\/p>\n<\/div><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-2\"><h5>Perofmed by Sarah Farmer (violin), Thomas McMahon (cello), Jack McNeill (clarinet) and Sofia Sarmento (piano).<\/h5>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-1 fusion_builder_column_2_3 2_3 fusion-flex-column fusion-animated\" style=\"--awb-bg-size:cover;--awb-width-large:66.666666666667%;--awb-margin-top-large:20px;--awb-spacing-right-large:2.88%;--awb-margin-bottom-large:20px;--awb-spacing-left-large:2.88%;--awb-width-medium:100%;--awb-order-medium:0;--awb-spacing-right-medium:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-medium:1.92%;--awb-width-small:100%;--awb-order-small:0;--awb-spacing-right-small:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-small:1.92%;\" data-animationType=\"fadeInDown\" data-animationDuration=\"0.8\" data-animationOffset=\"top-into-view\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-column-has-shadow fusion-flex-justify-content-flex-start fusion-content-layout-column\"><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-3 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fusion-flex-align-items-flex-start fusion-flex-content-wrap\" style=\"max-width:83.2%;margin-left: calc(-4% \/ 2 );margin-right: calc(-4% \/ 2 );\"><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-2 fusion_builder_column_1_1 1_1 fusion-flex-column fusion-animated\" style=\"--awb-bg-size:cover;--awb-width-large:100%;--awb-margin-top-large:20px;--awb-spacing-right-large:1.92%;--awb-margin-bottom-large:20px;--awb-spacing-left-large:1.92%;--awb-width-medium:100%;--awb-spacing-right-medium:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-medium:1.92%;--awb-width-small:100%;--awb-spacing-right-small:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-small:1.92%;\" data-animationType=\"fadeInDown\" data-animationDuration=\"0.8\" data-animationOffset=\"top-into-view\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-column-has-shadow fusion-flex-justify-content-flex-start fusion-content-layout-column\"><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-4\" style=\"--awb-font-size:30px;--awb-line-height:1.5em;\"><h5><strong>Michael Finnissy<\/strong>\u2018s chamber work <em>Judith Weir\u00a0<\/em>was composed as a 50th birthday present for her in 2004. Back in 1985, Weir had written a short piano piece as a gift for Finnissy titled <em>Michael\u2019s Strathspey<\/em>, an all-too-momentary dazzlement littered with \u2018scotch snaps\u2019, the familiar rhythmic device associated with that traditional <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Strathspey_%28dance%29\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Scottish dance tune<\/a>. For his return gift, Finnissy too calls on the strathspey, exploring it in a way that offers something of a variation on the approach taken in in <a href=\"http:\/\/5against4.com\/2016\/03\/05\/michael-finnissy-viitasaari\/\"><em>Viitasaari<\/em><\/a> and <em><a href=\"http:\/\/5against4.com\/2016\/02\/22\/michael-finnissy-a-lang-felton-lonnen-world-premiere\/\">A-lang Felton Lonnen<\/a><\/em>.<span id=\"more-14943\"><\/span><\/h5>\n<h5>Composed for violin, cello, piano and clarinet (although the latter part was originally performed by Finnissy himself on a <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Melodica\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">melodica<\/a>), the strathspey itself is performed with cheerful gusto by the violin, which acts as a soloist throughout. It becomes something of a cyclic presence, seemingly caught in a loop in aeternam, yet at the same time sounds continuously reinvented, full of effervescence and vitality, music laden with smiles and hiccups. The cello serves as a sidekick (not unlike a kind of Sancho Panza to the violin\u2019s Don Quixote), following it constantly with a pizzicato bassline, rhythmically staid but dependable, ever playing in sympathy. The piano feels tangentially connected, offering occasional bursts of floridity, clearly part of the ensemble in spirit but speaking as if with an entirely foreign dialect. And then there\u2019s the clarinet, entirely disconnected, sounding as though it was its first day uttering sounds, resulting in an endless series of halting solitary pitches that only occasionally sound correct and then by accident. The poor instrument never finds either the confidence or the nous to get a grip on what\u2019s going on around it, bringing an amusing layer of absurdity to what is already a charmingly oblique (or should that be obliquely charming?) birthday offering.<\/h5>\n<h5><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/5against4.com\/2016\/03\/14\/michael-finnissy-judith-weir\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/5against4.com\/2016\/03\/14\/michael-finnissy-judith-weir\/<\/a><\/span><\/h5>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box fusion-builder-row-3 fusion-flex-container nonhundred-percent-fullwidth non-hundred-percent-height-scrolling\" style=\"--awb-border-radius-top-left:0px;--awb-border-radius-top-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-left:0px;--awb-padding-top:60px;--awb-padding-right:8%;--awb-padding-bottom:5%;--awb-flex-wrap:wrap;\" ><div class=\"fusion-builder-row fusion-row 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