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The indefatigable Michael Finnissy has now exceeded his own impressive record of long piano works. The History of Photography in Sound has a projected duration of five-and-a-half hours. It is divided into five books with three chapters each for books 2-4. Ian Pace presents the première of the complete work at the Royal Academy of Music, London, on 28 January 2001. Peter Maxwell Davies' latest symphony - No 7 - is to be premièred by the BBC Philharmonic conducted by the composer as a BBC broadcast on 19 June, and repeated at the Proms in London on 21 July. An unlikely source of a Millennium commission - the Disney Company - nonetheless brought Michael Torke's cantata Four Seasons into being, and the New York Philharmonic with soloists and chorus gave the première in October 1999 under Kurt Masur, which the New York Times described as 'a brilliant piece of showmanship'. Might it reach Europe?
Posted: 9 June 2000
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