肯尼斯．富克斯: 管絃樂作品第一集 / 亞當．沃克 長笛 / 約翰．威爾森 指揮 / 倫敦小交響樂團 (SACD)

作曲家: Kenneth Fuchs
演出者: Adam Walker (flute) 
指揮家: John Wilson
樂團: Sinfonia of London

Grammy-Award-winning Kenneth Fuchs (born 1956) is without doubt one of American music's leading orchestral composers. His orchestral output has grown and developed to encompass a wide range of genres, from overtures and tone poems to suites and concertos (ten to date, including ones for string quartet, electric guitar, and piano, the last entitled Spiritualist), inspired by a diverse range of subjects, testimony to his wide sympathies and fields of knowledge. His output includes chamber music (including five string quartets), solos and duos, vocal and choral music, and four chamber musicals. Cloud Slant is a virtuoso orchestral concerto based on three of Helen Frankenthaler's canvasses: Blue Fall (1966), Flood (1967), and Cloud Slant (1968) –not just musical depictions of them but also the composer's reactions to their artistic sweep and power.

The flute was Fuchs' first instrument, so it was inevitable that he would compose a flute concerto. However, it was not until 2019 that he set about the task – for the flautist Peg Luke, to whom the concerto is dedicated. As is customary of compositions by this composer, the concerto carries a descriptive title, Solitary the Thrush, a reference to lines from Whitman's elegy for Abraham Lincoln, 'When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd'. Commissioned by the Californian Musique Sur La Mer Orchestras, Pacific Visions is scored for string orchestra, and is a single, dynamic movement sub-divided into five sections. Quiet in the Land, a Poem for Orchestra is a revision of a chamber work Fuchs composed in 2003, inspired by the rolling prairie of the Midwestern United States and the 'immense arching sky' under which it sits, cast against the impact of the Second Gulf War which had then recently broken out. The orchestral version heard here was composed in 2017 for the Phoenix Symphony. The album was recorded in Surround Sound, and is available as a Hybrid SACD and in Spatial Audio.

曲目:

Fuchs, K: Cloud Slant 18:57
1. I. Blue Fall. Allegretto - Pesante - Allegro deciso 6:33
2. II. Flood. Adagietto - Pesante - Poco maestoso - Andante flessibile 7:01
3. III. Cloud Slant. Allegretto - Piu mosso - Comodo - Pesante 5:23

4. Fuchs, K: Solitary the Thrush - Concerto for C and Alto Flute and Orchestra 16:17
5. Fuchs, K: Pacific Visions - in One Movement 8:18
6. Fuchs, K: Quiet in the Land - Poem for Orchestra 15:26

Total time: 58:58