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