Erika Fox - Paths
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Label: NMC Recordings
Cat No: NMCD254
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 1
Genre: Chamber
Release Date: 28th June 2019
Contents
Works
Cafe Warsaw 1944Kaleidiscope
Malinconia militaire
On visiting Stravinsky's grave at San Michele
Paths where the mourners tread
Quasi una cadenza
Artists
Richard Uttley (piano)Goldfield Ensemble
Conductor
Richard BakerWorks
Cafe Warsaw 1944Kaleidiscope
Malinconia militaire
On visiting Stravinsky's grave at San Michele
Paths where the mourners tread
Quasi una cadenza
Artists
Richard Uttley (piano)Goldfield Ensemble
Conductor
Richard BakerAbout
In the 1970s, Erika Fox 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 South Bank 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 commercial album 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.’
Erika Fox was born in Vienna in 1936 and came to England at the age of 2 as a war refugee. She grew up in a Hasidic rabbinical family, where music, dancing, rituals and a belief in miracles were part of daily life.
She won a scholarship to the Royal College of Music, London, where she studied piano with Angus Morrison and composition with Bernard Stevens. Further studies with Jeremy Dale Roberts and Harrison Birtwistle.
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