EXAUDI specializes in the radical edges of contemporary music, embracing complexity, microtonality, and experimental aesthetics, while also mixing contemporary music with medieval, Renaissance, and baroque periods.
Compositional Technique
The diversity in Christopher Fox's pieces, which sound very different on the surface, stems from starting each work with unique materials that are then transformed through rigorous compositional processes.
Performer Biography
EXAUDI, one of the world's leading vocal ensembles for new music, was founded in 2002 by composer/conductor James Weeks and soprano Juliet Fraser.
Composer Biography
Christopher Fox, the composer, was born in York, England, in 1955, to an English father and a German mother, and his German heritage has significantly influenced his music.
Recording & Production
This album was recorded across two dates: July 4, 2018, for tracks 1-5, and November 18, 2021, for tracks 6-10, both at St. Michael's Church, Highgate, London.
Composition History
Christopher Fox's Trostlieder in Widerwertigkeit des Kriegs (Songs of Comfort in the Adversity of War) was inspired by Martin Opitz's 17th-century poems, which the composer encountered through Günter Grass's novel Das Treffen in Telgte.
Composer's Artistic Vision
Christopher Fox's aesthetic project views composition as an act of curiosity and open-heartedness towards the diversity of the human condition, without forcing disparate experiences into a single unity.
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