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

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Composer
FUCHS, KENNETH
Artist
Falletta, Biegel, Cohen, Sparr, Mcallister
Format
CD
Label
Naxos
Released
Aug 10, 2018
Catalog #
8559824
UPC
636943982426

About

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)

Tracklist 15 tracks

  1. 1 I. Spiritualist 06:28
    Track
    1
    Title
    I. Spiritualist
    Duration
    06:28
    Composer
    Kenneth Fuchs
    Performer
    Jeffrey Biegel
    Ensemble
    London Symphony Orchestra
    Conductor
    JoAnn Falletta
  2. 2 II. Silent Wish 09:40
    Track
    2
    Title
    II. Silent Wish
    Duration
    09:40
    Composer
    Kenneth Fuchs
    Performer
    Jeffrey Biegel
    Ensemble
    London Symphony Orchestra
    Conductor
    JoAnn Falletta
  3. 3 III. Natural Answer 05:29
    Track
    3
    Title
    III. Natural Answer
    Duration
    05:29
    Composer
    Kenneth Fuchs
    Performer
    Jeffrey Biegel
    Ensemble
    London Symphony Orchestra
    Conductor
    JoAnn Falletta
  4. 4 Prologue: Etherial; Times Slips Away 02:40
    Track
    4
    Title
    Prologue: Etherial; Times Slips Away
    Duration
    02:40
    Composer
    Kenneth Fuchs
    Performer
    Aryeh Nussbaum Cohen
    Ensemble
    London Symphony Orchestra
    Conductor
    JoAnn Falletta
  5. 5 I. Gary Died; Just Like That; Watching for Death; Face 05:02
    Track
    5
    Title
    I. Gary Died; Just Like That; Watching for Death; Face
    Duration
    05:02
    Composer
    Kenneth Fuchs
    Performer
    Aryeh Nussbaum Cohen
    Ensemble
    London Symphony Orchestra
    Conductor
    JoAnn Falletta
  6. 6 II. Sisters; Forever Gone; The Retreat 03:06
    Track
    6
    Title
    II. Sisters; Forever Gone; The Retreat
    Duration
    03:06
    Composer
    Kenneth Fuchs
    Performer
    Aryeh Nussbaum Cohen
    Ensemble
    London Symphony Orchestra
    Conductor
    JoAnn Falletta
  7. 7 III. The Dream 02:26
    Track
    7
    Title
    III. The Dream
    Duration
    02:26
    Composer
    Kenneth Fuchs
    Performer
    Aryeh Nussbaum Cohen
    Ensemble
    London Symphony Orchestra
    Conductor
    JoAnn Falletta
  8. 8 Epilogue: Conversation; Epiphany 04:37
    Track
    8
    Title
    Epilogue: Conversation; Epiphany
    Duration
    04:37
    Composer
    Kenneth Fuchs
    Performer
    Aryeh Nussbaum Cohen
    Ensemble
    London Symphony Orchestra
    Conductor
    JoAnn Falletta
  9. 9 I. Glacier 02:54
    Track
    9
    Title
    I. Glacier
    Duration
    02:54
    Composer
    Kenneth Fuchs
    Performer
    D.J. Sparr
    Ensemble
    London Symphony Orchestra
    Conductor
    JoAnn Falletta
  10. 10 II. Rivulets 07:48
    Track
    10
    Title
    II. Rivulets
    Duration
    07:48
    Composer
    Kenneth Fuchs
    Performer
    D.J. Sparr
    Ensemble
    London Symphony Orchestra
    Conductor
    JoAnn Falletta
  11. 11 III. Vapor 03:42
    Track
    11
    Title
    III. Vapor
    Duration
    03:42
    Composer
    Kenneth Fuchs
    Performer
    D.J. Sparr
    Ensemble
    London Symphony Orchestra
    Conductor
    JoAnn Falletta
  12. 12 IV. Stone 04:37
    Track
    12
    Title
    IV. Stone
    Duration
    04:37
    Composer
    Kenneth Fuchs
    Performer
    D.J. Sparr
    Ensemble
    London Symphony Orchestra
    Conductor
    JoAnn Falletta
  13. 13 V. Going to the Sun 03:06
    Track
    13
    Title
    V. Going to the Sun
    Duration
    03:06
    Composer
    Kenneth Fuchs
    Performer
    D.J. Sparr
    Ensemble
    London Symphony Orchestra
    Conductor
    JoAnn Falletta
  14. 14 I. Evening 07:36
    Track
    14
    Title
    I. Evening
    Duration
    07:36
    Composer
    Kenneth Fuchs
    Performer
    Timothy McAllister
    Ensemble
    London Symphony Orchestra
    Conductor
    JoAnn Falletta
  15. 15 II. Morning 07:20
    Track
    15
    Title
    II. Morning
    Duration
    07:20
    Composer
    Kenneth Fuchs
    Performer
    Timothy McAllister
    Ensemble
    London Symphony Orchestra
    Conductor
    JoAnn Falletta