Edmund Finnis
Out of the Dawn’s Mind
Album information
POETRY AS SONG: EDMUND FINNIS, RUBY HUGHES & MANCHESTER COLLECTIVE UNITE
Edmund Finnis’ Out of the Dawn’s Mind is an intensely atmospheric song cycle for soprano and string orchestra, setting five poems from Alice Oswald’s acclaimed collection Falling Awake. Performed by soprano Ruby Hughes and Manchester Collective, who commissioned the work, it inhabits the fragile space between sound and silence, light and darkness, presence and disappearance. Tracing a world in constant motion, Finnis’ finely detailed music responds to Oswald’s poetry with extraordinary sensitivity to the rhythms and textures of the natural world, creating a work that is both intimate and expansive – a meditation on the flux of life and the instability of everything within it.
Following the Edison Award-winning 2023 EP Youth, featuring Finnis’ piano works performed by Clare Hammond, Out of the Dawn’s Mind offers a new portrait of one of Britain’s most distinctive contemporary composers. His music is here evocatively interpreted by Manchester Collective and Ruby Hughes, marking their
PENTATONE debut.
This is a digital-only EP, not available as a physical product.
