Composer(s): Fuchs, Kenneth
Conductor(s): Falletta, JoAnn
Label: Naxos
Series: American Classics
Genre: Vocal
Period: Contemporary
Catalogue No: 8.559753
Barcode: 636943975329
Release Date: 08/2014

FUCHS, K.: Falling Man / Movie House / Songs of Innocence and Experience (R. Williams, London Symphony, Falletta)

Kenneth Fuchs, one of America’s leading composers, deepens his bond with conductor JoAnn Falletta and the London Symphony Orchestra with this superb recording of vocal music featuring baritone Roderick Williams. The new works include Falling Man, a dramatic scena based on the powerful post-9/11 novel by Don DeLillo; Movie House, a cycle featuring settings of seven poems by John Updike; and Songs of Innocence and of Experience, four settings from William Blake’s iconic two-part illustrated collection of poems. Fuchs’s music continues to find its visual counterpart in the work of Abstract Expressionist artist Helen Frankenthaler, whose art adorns the cover of this disc.

Tracklist

Fuchs, Kenneth
McClatchy, J.D. - Lyricist
DeLillo, Don - Lyricist
Williams, Roderick (baritone)
London Symphony Orchestra (Orchestra)
Falletta, JoAnn (Conductor)
1 Introduction - 01:29
Williams, Roderick (baritone)
London Symphony Orchestra (Orchestra)
Falletta, JoAnn (Conductor)
2 Aria No. 1 - 01:42
Williams, Roderick (baritone)
London Symphony Orchestra (Orchestra)
Falletta, JoAnn (Conductor)
3 Interlude No. 1 - 01:13
London Symphony Orchestra (Orchestra)
Falletta, JoAnn (Conductor)
4 Aria No. 2 - 01:51
Williams, Roderick (baritone)
London Symphony Orchestra (Orchestra)
Falletta, JoAnn (Conductor)
5 Interlude No. 2 - 00:33
London Symphony Orchestra (Orchestra)
Falletta, JoAnn (Conductor)
6 Aria No. 3 - 04:14
Williams, Roderick (baritone)
London Symphony Orchestra (Orchestra)
Falletta, JoAnn (Conductor)
7 Interlude No. 3 - 02:06
London Symphony Orchestra (Orchestra)
Falletta, JoAnn (Conductor)
8 Aria No. 4 - 02:19
Williams, Roderick (baritone)
London Symphony Orchestra (Orchestra)
Falletta, JoAnn (Conductor)
9 Coda: Aria No. 5 02:59
Williams, Roderick (baritone)
London Symphony Orchestra (Orchestra)
Falletta, JoAnn (Conductor)
Fuchs, Kenneth
Updike, John - Lyricist
Williams, Roderick (baritone)
London Symphony Orchestra (Orchestra)
Falletta, JoAnn (Conductor)
10 I. Telephone Poles 06:04
Williams, Roderick (baritone)
London Symphony Orchestra (Orchestra)
Falletta, JoAnn (Conductor)
11 II. Maples in a Spruce Forest 04:15
Williams, Roderick (baritone)
London Symphony Orchestra (Orchestra)
Falletta, JoAnn (Conductor)
12 III. Seagulls 07:35
Williams, Roderick (baritone)
London Symphony Orchestra (Orchestra)
Falletta, JoAnn (Conductor)
13 IV. The Short Days 02:58
Williams, Roderick (baritone)
London Symphony Orchestra (Orchestra)
Falletta, JoAnn (Conductor)
14 V. Movie House - 05:21
Williams, Roderick (baritone)
London Symphony Orchestra (Orchestra)
Falletta, JoAnn (Conductor)
15 VI. Modigliani's Death Mask 02:43
Williams, Roderick (baritone)
London Symphony Orchestra (Orchestra)
Falletta, JoAnn (Conductor)
16 VII. Summer: West Side 04:55
Williams, Roderick (baritone)
London Symphony Orchestra (Orchestra)
Falletta, JoAnn (Conductor)
Fuchs, Kenneth
Blake, William - Lyricist
Williams, Roderick (baritone)
London Symphony Orchestra (Orchestra)
Falletta, JoAnn (Conductor)
17 I. The Lamb 02:37
Williams, Roderick (baritone)
London Symphony Orchestra (Orchestra)
Falletta, JoAnn (Conductor)
18 II. Holy Thursday 03:51
Williams, Roderick (baritone)
London Symphony Orchestra (Orchestra)
Falletta, JoAnn (Conductor)
19 III. Spring 01:11
Williams, Roderick (baritone)
London Symphony Orchestra (Orchestra)
Falletta, JoAnn (Conductor)
20 IV. The Tyger 01:36
Williams, Roderick (baritone)
London Symphony Orchestra (Orchestra)
Falletta, JoAnn (Conductor)

Total Playing Time: 01:01:32