Preludes, Variations, Studies and Incidental Music performed by Philip Thomas

by Christian Wolff

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1.	En Plus (Satie) Variation 05:05	buy track
2.	Another (Satie) Variation 04:44	buy track
3.	Yet Another (Satie) Variation 01:50	buy track
4.	Variations (extracts) On The Carmans Whistle Variations Of Byrd 07:27	buy track
5.	Eight Days A Week Variation 05:56	buy track
6.	Tilbury I 12:27	buy track
7.	Tilbury II 03:37	buy track
8.	Tilbury III 05:15	buy track
9.	Preludes 1 03:35	buy track
10.	Preludes 2 02:07	buy track
11.	Preludes 3 02:23	buy track
12.	Preludes 4 01:27	buy track
13.	Preludes 5 04:05	buy track
14.	Preludes 6 01:41	buy track
15.	Preludes 7 02:04	buy track
16.	Preludes 8 04:29	buy track
17.	Preludes 9 01:34	buy track
18.	Preludes 10 04:36	buy track
19.	Preludes 11 03:26	buy track
20.	Studies 1 01:48	buy track
21.	Studies 2 02:19	buy track
22.	Studies 3 02:55	buy track
23.	Incidental Music 01:10:52	buy track

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These two discs reveal Wolff as a composer fully exploring, in different ways, the continuum between music which is highly fragmented, embracing extended silences [composed or indeterminate], to that which is more progressive and seemingly driven, albeit taking in disarming and unconventional routes.

As a body of repertoire, these works are remarkable for their freshness of musical thought and energy (John Cage considered Wolff to be the most 'musical' of the experimental composers).

In all my performances of Wolff’s music i aim for interpretations
that both interest and surprise me, allowing the notations to lead
me to new ways of playing and thinking about music, whilst at
the same time trying to lead the notations toward the unexpected.
Philip Thomas

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Christian Wolff
Christian Wolff was born in Nice, France, to the German literary publishers Helen and Kurt Wolff, who had published works by Franz Kafka, Robert Musil, and Walter Benjamin. After relocating to the U.S. in 1941, they helped to found Pantheon Books with other European intellectuals who had fled Europe during the rise of fascism. The Wolffs published a series of notable English translations of European literature, mostly, as well as an edition of the I Ching that came
to greatly impress John Cage after Wolff had given him a copy.
Wolff became an American citizen in 1946. When he was sixteen his piano teacher Grete Sultan sent him for lessons in composition to the new music composer John Cage. Wolff soon became a close associate of Cage and his artistic circle, which included the fellow composers Earle Brown and Morton Feldman, the pianist David Tudor, and the dancer and choreographer Merce Cunningham. Cage relates several anecdotes about Wolff in his one-minute Indeterminacy pieces.

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Philip Thomas
Philip Thomas (b.1972, North Devon) specialises in performing experimental notated and improvised music as a soloist and with leading experimental music group Apartment House. Recent solo projects have included premiere performances of works by Michael Finnissy, Howard Skempton and Christian Wolff; programmes of Canadian and British experimental music; a 12-hour performance of Cage’s electronic music for piano; and a survey of Christian
Wolff’s piano music. His recent acclaimed recordings of John Cage’s Winter Music, two2, and concert for piano and orchestra have led to a website, set of apps and book about Cage’s concert [see cageconcert.org). He is currently Professor of performance at the University of Huddersfield, co-director of Cerenem, and co-editor of Changing the System: the music of Christian Wolff [Ashgate publishing, 2010].

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