℗ 2021 Christoph Croisé
Released | August 27, 2021 |
Duration | 1h 11m 20s |
Record Label | AVIE Records |
Catalogue No. | AV2466 |
Genre | Classical (20th/21st Century) |
Christoph Croisé • The Solo Album
Christoph Croisé
Available in 96 kHz / 24-bit AIFF, FLAC high resolution audio formats
Concerto Rotondo For Solo Cello
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1.1
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I. Lento con libertà
Giovanni Sollima; Christoph Croisé |
3:26 | |||
1.2
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II. Allegro
Giovanni Sollima; Christoph Croisé |
4:06 | |||
1.3
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III. Yafù
Giovanni Sollima; Christoph Croisé |
3:57 | |||
1.4
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IV. Allegro
Giovanni Sollima; Christoph Croisé |
4:00 | |||
Sonata For Solo Cello
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1.5
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I. Dialogo
György Ligeti; Christoph Croisé |
3:58 | |||
1.6
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II. Capriccio
György Ligeti; Christoph Croisé |
3:52 | |||
1.7
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Spring Promenade
Christoph Croisé; Christoph Croisé |
4:12 | |||
1.8
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Stonehenge
Péter Pejtsik; Christoph Croisé |
4:26 | |||
Sonata For Solo Cello, Op. 8
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1.9
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I. Allegro maestoso ma appassionato
Zoltán Kodály; Christoph Croisé |
8:07 | |||
1.10
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II. Adagio (con grand espressione)
Zoltán Kodály; Christoph Croisé |
10:55 | |||
1.11
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III. Allegro molto vivace
Zoltán Kodály; Christoph Croisé |
11:32 | |||
1.12
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Alone
Giovanni Sollima; Christoph Croisé |
5:03 | |||
1.13
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Some Like To Show It Off
Thomas Buritch; Christoph Croisé |
3:46 |
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 Christoph’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.
96 kHz / 24-bit PCM – AVIE Records Studio Masters
Track title | Peak (dB FS) | RMS (dB FS) | LUFS (integrated) | DR | |
Album average Range of values | -1.10 -1.98 to -1.02 | -18.77 -22.09 to -16.38 | -15.60 -18.60 to -13.70 | 11 9 to 13 | |
1 | I. Lento con libertà | -1.98 | -21.48 | -18.6 | 11 |
2 | II. Allegro | -1.02 | -17.04 | -14.3 | 10 |
3 | III. Yafù | -1.02 | -18.20 | -15.7 | 11 |
4 | IV. Allegro | -1.02 | -17.64 | -13.8 | 9 |
5 | I. Dialogo | -1.10 | -21.11 | -17.1 | 12 |
6 | II. Capriccio | -1.02 | -19.39 | -15.8 | 11 |
7 | Spring Promenade | -1.02 | -17.39 | -14.6 | 11 |
8 | Stonehenge | -1.02 | -16.38 | -13.7 | 9 |
9 | I. Allegro maestoso ma appassionato | -1.02 | -19.13 | -15.6 | 11 |
10 | II. Adagio (con grand espressione) | -1.02 | -22.09 | -18.3 | 13 |
11 | III. Allegro molto vivace | -1.02 | -18.28 | -15.1 | 10 |
12 | Alone | -1.02 | -18.99 | -15.8 | 11 |
13 | Some Like To Show It Off | -1.02 | -16.93 | -14.4 | 11 |