5023363025423

Erika Fox: Paths

Goldfield Ensemble; Richard Baker; Richard Uttley

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Format: CD

Cat No: NMCD254

Release Date:  28 June 2019

Label:  NMC Recordings

Packaging Type:  Jewel Case

No of Units:  1

Barcode:  5023363025423

Genres:  Classical  Chamber Music  

  • Description

    'It is incredibly rare to stumble across a virtually unknown or forgotten composer whose music genuinely excites and delivers, piece after piece. Erika Fox's language is bold, feisty, uncompromising and astonishingly fresh. A highly distinctive style has emerged from a childhood suffused with music of Eastern European origin. Hasidic music, liturgical chant embellished with heterophony mingle with modal ancient melodic lines reminiscent of Eastern European folk music. She is a composer who is constantly energised by sound and its inexhaustible possibilities.' Kate Romano (Artistic Director of Goldfield Ensemble)

    In the 1970s, Erika was actively involved with the Fires of London, the Nash Ensemble, Dartington, and the Society for the Promotion of New Music (SPNM). Between 1974 and 1994 her works were regularly performed at London's Southbank Centre, at major festivals and were regularly broadcast in the UK and abroad, but then it all stopped ...

    We are delighted to bring her music to a new audience on this first commerical album at the age of 82, and have selected six chamber pieces spanning a 25 year period (1980 - 2005). They represent the depth and scope of Fox's music and are a fine introduction to her extraordinary musical imagination.

    Erika says 'I have always been interested in theatre and ritual, as a means of containing human drama within boundaries. Since my music owes almost nothing to Western musical tradition, and almost everything to my childhood memories of Jewish Liturgical chant and fragments of Hasidic melody, there is no harmonic development as such, rather single melodic lines, often in heterophony, held together by dint of varied repetition, and moulded, sometimes by use of percussion, to provide a ritualistic and perhaps theatrical whole.'

  • Tracklisting

      Disc 1

      Side 1

      • 1. Erika Fox: Paths Where The Mourners Tread
      • 2. Erika Fox: Quasi Una Cadenza
      • 3. Erika Fox: On Visiting Stravinsky's Grave at San Michele
      • 4. Erika Fox: Malinconia Militaire 1st Movement
      • 5. Erika Fox: Malinconia Militaire 2nd Movement
      • 6. Erika Fox: Malinconia Militaire 3rd Movement
      • 7. Erika Fox: Malinconia Militaire 4th Movement ('Poem')
      • 8. Erika Fox: Cafe Warsaw 1944 Prologue
      • 9. Erika Fox: Cafe Warsaw 1944 Lament
      • 10. Erika Fox: Cafe Warsaw 1944 Scherzo
      • 11. Erika Fox: Cafe Warsaw Lament 1944 II & Coda
      • 12. Erika Fox: Kaleidoscope