George Flynn: Trinity (2008)

Swedish pianist Fredrik Ullén is already making a name for himself as a pianist who specializes in playing hyper-difficult, unplayable kinds of piano works through his success with Sorabji's mind-bending 100 Transcendental Studies. Relatively few might have expected Ullén's next salvo would be to pick up the cudgel of George Flynn, Chicago-based composer whose work stretches back decades but remains little known in Europe, and indeed, even at home. Flynn is a composer who never takes the easy way out; his music is highly ... Read More

Swedish pianist Fredrik Ullén is already making a name for himself as a pianist who specializes in playing hyper-difficult, unplayable kinds of piano works through his success with Sorabji's mind-bending 100 Transcendental Studies. Relatively few might have expected Ullén's next salvo would be to pick up the cudgel of George Flynn, Chicago-based composer whose work stretches back decades but remains little known in Europe, and indeed, even at home. Flynn is a composer who never takes the easy way out; his music is highly individual, non-systematic; his catalog of pieces small and heavily worked through; and his personal idiom completely uncompromising. Flynn himself has long been established as the primary interpreter of his own work; however, there is no reason why Flynn's highly detailed and specific scores should not be interpreted by others. BIS' George Flynn: Trinity brings together the three works in Flynn's major piano cycle and puts them under Ullén's capable hands with startling and compelling... Read Less