Friday 29 January 2021

John Fox's Emotions from 1983 with the Munich Chamber Orchestra



From discogs:

John Fox (born 30 April 1924, Sutton, Surrey, England - died 10 February 2015, Banstead, Surrey, England) was a British composer and conductor of light music. He was a regular conductor and arranger for the BBC Symphony Orchestra on Radio 2. In 1971 he founded the John Fox Orchestra for a concert given to the 75th anniversary of George Gershwin. He also composed several pieces for piano or orchestras (often performing with his second wife, Joy Devon) and was a prolific producer of library music.

This was co-composed with Mac Prindy here aka'ed Otto Sieben (which is via whom I arrived at this particular release).  The music is very programmatic, that is, all tracks are abstractly named Emotions and stand as a cohesive suite of soundtrack-like passages played beautifully by the full orchestra, perhaps a long symphony for chamber orchestra would have been a better description, but in 16 small movements.  There is nothing easy about this listening, no fusion, nothing rock-compromising, though overall it is very melodic, there is no baroque element, instead a lot of movie OST influence.  It would be fitting to be played in a symphony orchestra as I always say instead of the usual tired old pieces by the traditional European composers we are so so sick of and have been sick of and sick from for the last two hundred years.  

I really love this stuff of course, others might not have a taste for it, especially with the absence of any rock or beat element.  Emotion 14 presents a slightly more different sound with the addition of a grand piano for emphasis:



Not my rip, but heartful thanks to the ripper




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