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Special offer. Christopher Fox - You, Us, Me

Amanda Crawley (soprano), Ian Pace (piano) & Christopher Fox (tape collage)

Christopher Fox - You, Us, Me
This second Metier disc devoted to the inventive British composer comprises first recordings of eight works, mostly involving Ian Pace and joined by Amanda Crawley in two song-cycles, A-N-N-A...

Special offer. Christopher Fox - You, Us, Me

Amanda Crawley (soprano), Ian Pace (piano) & Christopher Fox (tape collage)

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This second Metier disc devoted to the inventive British composer comprises first recordings of eight works, mostly involving Ian Pace and joined by Amanda Crawley in two song-cycles, A-N-N-A...

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Contents and tracklist

No. 1, Dumb Animals
Track length1:09
No. 2, Morning
Track length1:54
No. 3, 1, 2, 3
Track length1:14
No. 4, Cut-Up
Track length1:50
No. 5, A-N-N-a Blossom's Book of Chinese Proverbs
Track length2:17
No. 6, You
Track length2:14
No. 7, Country Life
Track length1:04
No. 8, All About a-N-N-a
Track length4:07
No. 9, Lullaby
Track length1:05
I. Valse
Track length0:45
II. Yearning
Track length0:53
III. Simile
Track length0:48
IV. Ice Watch
Track length1:45
V. The Dreaming Country
Track length1:23
VI. Worthless Leather
Track length2:10
VII. The Critic
Track length0:21
VIII. Book-Keeping for Small Businessmen
Track length0:29
IX. Going Gone
Track length0:25
X. Reconstruction
Track length0:30
XI. Hands
Track length0:31

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This second Metier disc devoted to the inventive British composer comprises first recordings of eight works, mostly involving Ian Pace and joined by Amanda Crawley in two song-cycles, A-N-N-A Blossom-time and Louisiana, using Poems (in Fox's own translation from the German) by Kurt Schwitters. These are dry, droll, stylistically capricious miniatures, musical dada. The piano piece You, Us, Me (Habeñera) inspired by Bizet's Carmen and Catherine Clements's feminist commentary on it, is contrastingly unitary, minimalistic, rigorous. Besides three other piano solos, including the Joseph Beuys-influenced Block, for an instrument "prepared" wit Blu-Tak, there are two tape pieces, both evoking Schwitters as a wartime detainee in Britain.
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