The Landscape Wakes

The Landscape Wakes is the final piece in a decade-spanning trilogy of orchestral works focusing on our perception of the world around us - how it moves, and how we are moved by it. This new piece contains the most agile, forceful music of the trilogy, as well as the most tender. While composing, I kept in my mind the mental image of the world’s spinning on its axis. I wanted the music to be constantly in motion, its lines and harmonies turning and revolving. The ‘landscape’ of the title is no specific place. It is every landscape. And the waking - the dawning, the renewal - is perpetual. Edmund Finnis