Christopher Fox “inner” solo cello music

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Label:
Catalogue No: MSVCD 92059
EAN/UPC: 5019148630319
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Release Date: May 2001
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Discs: 1
Total Playing Time: 72:42

METIER’s third CD dedicated to the “impressive, thoughtful, entertaining and extremely varied” [Sunday Times] music of Christopher Fox. Fox brings music for solo cello into the modern age – his sometimes microtonic, sometimes lyrical, writing demands especial skill and virtuosity from the performer – ably provided by Lukoszieveze. Fox, for those in the know, is one of the foremost contemporary composers in the UK – see other Metier CDs of his music.

Track Listing

    Christopher Fox:
  1. Straight Lines in Broken Times3 (8:30)
  2. Chant Suspendu (8:16)
  3. Generic Compositions #3,4,5 (10:16)
  4. Inner - part 1 (3:07)
  5. Inner - part 2 (2:03)
  6. Inner - part 3 (2:11)
  7. Inner - part 4 (2:50)
  8. Inner - part 5 (1:09)
  9. Inner - part 6 (0:14)
  10. Inner - part 7 (1:09)
  11. Inner - part 8 (1:54)
  12. Inner - part 9 (3:55)
  13. Inner - part 10 (1:11)
  14. Inner - part 11 (0:25)
  15. Inner - part 12 (1:23)
  16. Inner - part 13 (0:27)
  17. Inner - part 14 (0:35)
  18. Inner - part 15 (1:40)
  19. Inner - part 16 (1:04)
  20. Inner - part 17 (0:23)
  21. Inner - part 18 (0:14)
  22. Inner - part 19 (1:08)
  23. Inner - part 20 (0:24)
  24. Inner - part 21 (2:33)
  25. Inner - part 22 (0:34)
  26. Inner - part 23 (2:00)
  27. Inner - part 24 (1:09)
  28. Inner - part 25 (0:51)
  29. Inner - part 26 (1:53)
  30. Inner - part 27 (0:17)
  31. Inner - part 28 (4:15)
  32. Inner - part 29 (0:16)
  33. Inner - part 30 (1:00)
  34. Inner - part 31 (2:53)

Reviews

The Wire

Inner tells you everything you need to know about the uncharted possibilities of acoustic composition. In Anton Lukoszevieze, [Fox] has found a consummate narrative performer who makes much of the tension between the often delicate purity of the music and its structural rigour.

” —Philip Clark
The Sunday Times

played with radiant commitment by a votary of avant-gardism. [In inner] the simplest of little phrases is revisited 33 times to form an epic succession that suggests a dadaist version of a Bach chaconne, but has the genuine spiritual pull of one of Morton Feldman’s rapt excursions.

” —Paul Driver