Various: Christoph Croisé - The Solo Album / Croisé

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Label
Avie Records
Release Date
August 27, 2021
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      VARIOUS
    • PERFORMER
      Christoph Croise
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      August 27, 2021
    • UPC
      822252246629
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      AV2466
    • LABEL
      Avie Records
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Classical
    Works ⌄

    1. I. Lento con libertà

      Composer: Giovanni Sollima

      Performer: Christoph Croisé

    2. II. Allegro

      Composer: Giovanni Sollima

      Performer: Christoph Croisé

    3. III. Yafù

      Composer: Giovanni Sollima

      Performer: Christoph Croisé

    4. IV. Allegro

      Composer: Giovanni Sollima

      Performer: Christoph Croisé

    5. I. Dialogo

      Composer: György Ligeti

      Performer: Christoph Croisé

    6. II. Capriccio

      Composer: György Ligeti

      Performer: Christoph Croisé

    7. Spring Promenade

      Composer: Christoph Croisé

      Performer: Christoph Croisé

    8. Stonehenge

      Composer: Péter Pejtsik

      Performer: Christoph Croisé

    9. I. Allegro maestoso ma appassionato

      Composer: Zoltán Kodály

      Performer: Christoph Croisé

    10. II. Adagio (con grand espressione) - Con moto - Tempo I - Più mosso

      Composer: Zoltán Kodály

      Performer: Christoph Croisé

    11. III. Allegro molto vivace

      Composer: Zoltán Kodály

      Performer: Christoph Croisé

    12. Alone

      Composer: Giovanni Sollima

      Performer: Christoph Croisé

    13. Some like to show it off

      Composer: Thomas Buritch

      Performer: Christoph Croisé


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.