Sam Cave Performs Outcast by Michael Finnissy

ByBradford Werner
2022

Sam Cave performs Outcast by Michael Finnissy (b.1946), written for Cave in 2021. This comes via his YouTube Channel. The work had its world premiere by Cave at the 21^st Century Guitar Conference in Indiana, USA in March but due to Covid the premiere was given via a video performance at Asylum Chapel in Peckham, London, UK.

Beautifully spacious and complex work with wonderful pacing and control of the texture by Sam Cave. Also check out his excellent recording I reviewed Refracted Resonance featuring contemporary music for guitar. Finnissy is a major composer of our day so this is a big contribution to the guitar repertoire. He has a number of solo and chamber music works that include guitar. You can see a list of his composers at his site but you can also see this wiki and text search it for guitar. The sheet music for Outcast is published by Verlag Neue Musik here.

Bradford Werner

Bradford Werner is a classical guitarist and music publisher from Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. He originally created this site for his students at the Victoria Conservatory of Music but now shares content worldwide. Curating guitar content helps students absorb the culture, musical ideas, and technique of the classical guitar. Bradford also has a YouTube channel with over 94,000 subscribers and 13 million views. He taught classical guitar at the Victoria Conservatory of Music for 16 years and freelanced in Greater Victoria for 20 years and now dedicates much of his time curating content online and helping connect the classical guitar community. See more at his personal website.