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- Label: Prima Facie
- Catalogue number: PFCD051
"doubly worthwhile" - Fiona Maddocks, The Observer
"the Continuum Ensemble and guests brilliantly sing and play a range of attractive pieces" - Stephen Pettitt, The Sunday Times
"an album of wit, colour and imagination" - BBC Music Magazine
"very beautiful sounding works, helped enormously by the sensitive touch of Finch" - Adam Fergler, Without Barlines blog
"The night-time theme continues in ‘Night Piece’ for solo piano, [...] performed by Douglas Finch, who brings a delicate clarity and tenderness to this dreamlike work." - Frances Wilson, Cross-Eyed Pianist blog
"most rewarding and enjoyable" ... (of 'Night Piece') "Causton brings a terrific atmosphere with [Douglas Finch] finding many lovely moments" - Bruce Reader, The Classical Reviewer
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- Label: Prima Facie
- Catalogue number: PFCD040
"captivating and engrossing [...] This is one of those very rare discs that I return to, [...] and discover fresh musical delights in abundance." - Ian Mitchell, Clarinettist and Director of Gemini
"The playing on 'Inner Landscapes' is exemplary. These are top-notch musicians"; "Ucluelet [Track 11] is a perfectly wrought piece of music" - Adam Fergler, Without Barlines blog
"a composer who has developed his own distinctive language with impressive results, creating landscapes that are elusive yet intensely enveloping" - Bruce Reader ClassicalReviewer blog
"It is the restraint in this music that makes it particularly arresting." - The Cross-Eyed Pianist
"Endlessly beguiling... The patterns and textures of his music draw us into a world whose beauty keeps us gently spellbound" - Michael Church, The Independent
"Finch has a very striking ear for nuance and gesture" - 4* review from Planet Hugill blog
- See the Neue Chorszene Dusseldorf review of the CD launch of 'Inner Landscapes' in Germany
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- Sound Clouds Press Release July 2014 (docx)
- Label: Pumpkin Records
"It’s obvious that the artists had an extraordinarily creative experience but at all times the music speaks to the listener with a heartfelt and eloquent sincerity." - Sean Corby
"there is a lightness to many of these performances that makes the album's title the most apt of descriptions of the music it contains" - Duncan Heining, All About Jazz
"a tremendous record of a serendipitous musical symbiosis" - Shock of the New Blog
Listen to some excerpts:
Sound Clouds 1. Prelude
Sound Clouds 14. Hoedownup
- Recorded live at Chetham's School of Music
- Available from: Douglas Finch
Contents:
- Finch: Preludes and Afterthoughts - Fantasy-Transcriptions on Chopin's Preludes op.28
- Chopin: Sonata no 2 in B flat minor op 34
- Finch: Improvisations on themes from the audience
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- Label: NMC Recordings
- Catalogue number: NMC D083
"Acclaimed for their recording of Errollyn Wallen’s music (Avie, 7/02), The Continuum Ensemble prove equally adept here, with Douglas Finch in command of writing whose demands are a reminder that Smalley is himself no mean pianist."
- Richard Whitehouse, Gramophone
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- Label: Avie
- Catalogue number: AV0006
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- Label: Mesa
"These tracks were selected from 20 improvisations recorded on the evening of July 4, 1994. Except for a couple of hours of technical experimentation and warm-up, none of the musical ideas were consciously prepared in advance. The only preparation was to jot down about 30 titles on the way to the recording studio." - Douglas Finch
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- “The music is as subtly bold as the rest of the film with the composer Douglas Finch a character who performs live or sits observing, poised at his keyboard. This means the music seems to come from inside the film and inside of the characters, a bubbling wave of emotion...” - Front Row Reviews
- "musical interludes add subtle emotional underlining" - Hannah McGill, Sight & Sound
- "underpinned by a sense of melancholy, reflected in the songs and music performed" - Adrian Peel, Cambridge Independent
- "Questions love and marriage astonishingly well. Intelligent and worth the wait, acted superbly" 4-star review from The Upcoming
- "Thoughtful and touching, imbued with a gentle melancholy. Profoundly affecting portrait" 4-star review from Jason Solomons
"a score... perfectly attuned to the mood of the film with its delicacy and understated manner"
- Charles Graham-Gordon
“Jon Sanders’ film has a quiet power and beauty unlike anything I’ve seen in British cinema.” - Jason Solomons
- Available from: Douglas Finch
"The fatalistic beauty of Jon Sanders’ ‘Painted Angels’ is complimented by its delicate soundtrack by Douglas Finch – proof at last that film music needn’t be bland... Both the score and its film represent a great triumph of artistic will." - Michael Church, The Independent