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Various: Christoph Croisé - The Solo Album / Croisé
Avie Records

Various: Christoph Croisé - The Solo Album / Croisé

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Composer
VARIOUS
Artist
Christoph Croise
Format
CD
Label
Avie Records
Released
Aug 27, 2021
Catalog #
AV2466
UPC
822252246629

About

Modernism. Multiculturism. Multi-tuning. Lockdown. These are among the elements that bind the works on The Solo Album by award winning cellist Christoph Croisé, who took the opportunity of 2020’s coronavirus isolation to work intensively on a variety of solo works and also turn his hand to composition. At the heart of the album is Hungarian composer Zoltán Kodály’s epic Sonata, the first major work for solo cello after the suites by Johann Sebastian Bach which were written two centuries earlier. The virtuosity demands of the soloist re-tuning two of the cello’s strings, double-stop trills and simultaneous bowed and plucked passages, all of which Christoph dispatches with aplomb. Framing Kodály’s Sonata are works by two compatriots, György Ligeti’s two-movement Sonata which draws inspiration from Béla Bartók, and the more recent Stonehenge by cellist, composer and pop-music producer Péter Pejtsik which includes intimations of electric guitar. A “sandwich filler” is Christophe’s first composition for solo cello, Spring Promenade, which is infused with boogie-woogie, reggae, swing and techno. He took inspiration from Sicilian composer-cello virtuoso Giovanni Sollima whose Concerto Rotondo incorporates electronics and extended techniques. Closing out the album, Sollima’s short work Alone gives way to the album’s “encore”, the exuberant Some like to show it off by Croatian cellist-composer Thomas Buritch.

Tracklist 13 tracks

  1. 1 I. Lento con libertà 03:26
    Track
    1
    Title
    I. Lento con libertà
    Duration
    03:26
    Composer
    Giovanni Sollima
    Performer
    Christoph Croisé
  2. 2 II. Allegro 04:06
    Track
    2
    Title
    II. Allegro
    Duration
    04:06
    Composer
    Giovanni Sollima
    Performer
    Christoph Croisé
  3. 3 III. Yafù 03:57
    Track
    3
    Title
    III. Yafù
    Duration
    03:57
    Composer
    Giovanni Sollima
    Performer
    Christoph Croisé
  4. 4 IV. Allegro 04:00
    Track
    4
    Title
    IV. Allegro
    Duration
    04:00
    Composer
    Giovanni Sollima
    Performer
    Christoph Croisé
  5. 5 I. Dialogo 03:58
    Track
    5
    Title
    I. Dialogo
    Duration
    03:58
    Composer
    György Ligeti
    Performer
    Christoph Croisé
  6. 6 II. Capriccio 03:52
    Track
    6
    Title
    II. Capriccio
    Duration
    03:52
    Composer
    György Ligeti
    Performer
    Christoph Croisé
  7. 7 Spring Promenade 04:12
    Track
    7
    Title
    Spring Promenade
    Duration
    04:12
    Composer
    Christoph Croisé
    Performer
    Christoph Croisé
  8. 8 Stonehenge 04:26
    Track
    8
    Title
    Stonehenge
    Duration
    04:26
    Composer
    Péter Pejtsik
    Performer
    Christoph Croisé
  9. 9 I. Allegro maestoso ma appassionato 08:07
    Track
    9
    Title
    I. Allegro maestoso ma appassionato
    Duration
    08:07
    Composer
    Zoltán Kodály
    Performer
    Christoph Croisé
  10. 10 II. Adagio (con grand espressione) - Con moto - Tempo I - Più mosso 10:55
    Track
    10
    Title
    II. Adagio (con grand espressione) - Con moto - Tempo I - Più mosso
    Duration
    10:55
    Composer
    Zoltán Kodály
    Performer
    Christoph Croisé
  11. 11 III. Allegro molto vivace 11:33
    Track
    11
    Title
    III. Allegro molto vivace
    Duration
    11:33
    Composer
    Zoltán Kodály
    Performer
    Christoph Croisé
  12. 12 Alone 05:03
    Track
    12
    Title
    Alone
    Duration
    05:03
    Composer
    Giovanni Sollima
    Performer
    Christoph Croisé
  13. 13 Some like to show it off 03:46
    Track
    13
    Title
    Some like to show it off
    Duration
    03:46
    Composer
    Thomas Buritch
    Performer
    Christoph Croisé