Fuchs: Piano Concerto "Spiritualist", Poems of Life, Etc / Falletta, London Symphony

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Label
Naxos
Release Date
August 10, 2018
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      FUCHS, KENNETH
    • ORCHESTRA / ENSEMBLE
      London Symphony Orchestra
    • PERFORMER
      Falletta, Biegel, Cohen, Sparr, Mcallister
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      August 10, 2018
    • UPC
      636943982426
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      8559824
    • LABEL
      Naxos
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Classical
    Works ⌄

    1. I. Spiritualist

      Composer: Kenneth Fuchs

      Ensemble: London Symphony Orchestra

      Performer: Jeffrey Biegel

      Conductor: JoAnn Falletta

    2. II. Silent Wish

      Composer: Kenneth Fuchs

      Ensemble: London Symphony Orchestra

      Performer: Jeffrey Biegel

      Conductor: JoAnn Falletta

    3. III. Natural Answer

      Composer: Kenneth Fuchs

      Ensemble: London Symphony Orchestra

      Performer: Jeffrey Biegel

      Conductor: JoAnn Falletta

    4. Prologue: Etherial; Times Slips Away

      Composer: Kenneth Fuchs

      Ensemble: London Symphony Orchestra

      Performer: Aryeh Nussbaum Cohen

      Conductor: JoAnn Falletta

    5. I. Gary Died; Just Like That; Watching for Death; Face

      Composer: Kenneth Fuchs

      Ensemble: London Symphony Orchestra

      Performer: Aryeh Nussbaum Cohen

      Conductor: JoAnn Falletta

    6. II. Sisters; Forever Gone; The Retreat

      Composer: Kenneth Fuchs

      Ensemble: London Symphony Orchestra

      Performer: Aryeh Nussbaum Cohen

      Conductor: JoAnn Falletta

    7. III. The Dream

      Composer: Kenneth Fuchs

      Ensemble: London Symphony Orchestra

      Performer: Aryeh Nussbaum Cohen

      Conductor: JoAnn Falletta

    8. Epilogue: Conversation; Epiphany

      Composer: Kenneth Fuchs

      Ensemble: London Symphony Orchestra

      Performer: Aryeh Nussbaum Cohen

      Conductor: JoAnn Falletta

    9. I. Glacier

      Composer: Kenneth Fuchs

      Ensemble: London Symphony Orchestra

      Performer: D.J. Sparr

      Conductor: JoAnn Falletta

    10. II. Rivulets

      Composer: Kenneth Fuchs

      Ensemble: London Symphony Orchestra

      Performer: D.J. Sparr

      Conductor: JoAnn Falletta

    11. III. Vapor

      Composer: Kenneth Fuchs

      Ensemble: London Symphony Orchestra

      Performer: D.J. Sparr

      Conductor: JoAnn Falletta

    12. IV. Stone

      Composer: Kenneth Fuchs

      Ensemble: London Symphony Orchestra

      Performer: D.J. Sparr

      Conductor: JoAnn Falletta

    13. V. Going to the Sun

      Composer: Kenneth Fuchs

      Ensemble: London Symphony Orchestra

      Performer: D.J. Sparr

      Conductor: JoAnn Falletta

    14. I. Evening

      Composer: Kenneth Fuchs

      Ensemble: London Symphony Orchestra

      Performer: Timothy McAllister

      Conductor: JoAnn Falletta

    15. II. Morning

      Composer: Kenneth Fuchs

      Ensemble: London Symphony Orchestra

      Performer: Timothy McAllister

      Conductor: JoAnn Falletta


2019 Grammy Award WInner - Best Classical Compendium


Kenneth Fuchs is one of America’s leading composers. He celebrates his unique fifteen-year recording history with conductor JoAnn Falletta and the London Symphony Orchestra with this stunning release of three new concertos and an orchestral song cycle. Kenneth Fuchs has composed music for orchestra, band, voice, chorus, and various chamber ensembles. His music has achieved significant global recognition through performances, media exposure, and digital streaming and downloading throughout North and South America, Central and Eastern Europe, Asia, and Australia. The London Symphony Orchestra, under the baton of JoAnn Falletta, has recorded five discs of Fuchs’s music for Naxos American Classics. The first, released in August 2005, was nominated for two GRAMMY® Awards (“Best Instrumental Soloist Performance with Orchestra” and “Producer of the Year, Classical”).

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REVIEW:

Now stretching back over the past fifteen years, JoAnn Falletta and the London Symphony Orchestra have been recording the major works of Kenneth Fuchs.

All of the present disc comes from the past six years, the most recent, Poems of Life, completed in 2017. The opening Piano Concerto, in the conventional three movements, was composed at the request of Jeffrey Biegel, who is the soloist on this disc. Often testing his technical virtuosity, the finale calls for prodigious dexterity in the fast flowing finale.

We can admire the London Symphony for the multitude of colours they provide, just as if the play the music regularly, and our gratitude to the conductor, JoAnn Falletta, the composer’s unstinting champion.

– David's Review Corner (David Denton)