OUT OF THE DAWN’S MIND by Edmund Finnis
Performed by Ruby Hughes & Manchester Collective
Digital release on 6 November 2026
Pentatone
OUT OF THE DAWN’S MIND
YOUTH
YOUTH by Edmund Finnis
Performed by Clare Hammond
Released 2 February 2024
Pentatone
DEVOTIONS
DEVOTIONS (String Quartet No. 3)
by Edmund Finnis
SOLEM QUARTET
featured on the album, PAINTED LIGHT
released 24th October 2023
DELPHIAN
“Finnis’s music is minutely attentive to the careful weighting of harmony and dissonance, so that every bar draws the listener in and feels urgently consequential.” Europadisc Classical
PRELUDES
PRELUDES by Edmund Finnis
Sheku Kanneh-Mason, cello
featured on the album, SONG
released 9th September 2022
DECCA
SHADES
String Quartet No. 1 “Aloysius”
String Quartet No. 2
Manchester Collective
“What the two works have in common is the wonderful refinement of the string writing, its airy lyricism and fragile, touching beauty.”
The Guardian
“Having collaborated on several projects to date, Edmund Finnis and Manchester Collective enjoy a synergy that shines through this short but exquisite mini-album comprising his first and second string quartets. […]
Finnis has spoken of his love of communicating through sound, and of his desire to create beauty. Both are wonderfully achieved here, in music that’s exceptionally refined but never rarefied thanks to a graininess that speaks to the physicality of touch and breath. […]
Both works explore worlds of colour as if illuminated from the inside through the push-pull of timbre, texture and shape: not so much moment by moment – though the lines are fluently crafted – but through the creation of a musical space that’s at once richly inward looking and expansive.
[…] the echoes of consort music abound, the whole performed with captivating skill and a sense of searching co-adventure.”
★★★★★ BBC Music Magazine
THE CENTRE IS EVERYWHERE
THE CENTRE IS EVERYWHERE
by Edmund Finnis
Manchester Collective
Bedroom Community
“…the haunting, iridescent work by Edmund Finnis at the centre of this compelling release celebrating five years of Manchester Collective. Commissioned by the ensemble and scored for 12 string players, the piece has an ageless, ancient-yet-modern quality: like a shimmering ghost of Lawes’ viol consorts, a fine latticework of line and colour is viewed through a kaleidoscope of grainy harmonies and whistling white noise. The twin push-pull of emotion and texture encapsulates a performance ethos that extends to the contrasting works either side, uniting them across supposed aesthetic distance.”
★★★★★ BBC Music Magazine
“a bewitching piece for 12 string players ”
Fiona Maddocks, The Guardian