Foss: Ode / Renaissance Concerto / Three American Pieces / Symphony No. 1 in G major
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LUKAS FOSS
Foss: Ode / Renaissance Concerto / Three American Pieces / Symphony No. 1 in G major
Amy Porter (flute) Nikki Chooi (violin) / Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra, JoAnn Falletta
[ Naxos American Classics / CD ]
Release Date: Friday 24 May 2024
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Berlin-born Lukas Foss studied music in Paris before settling in Philadelphia in 1937. Though he freely explored diverse compositional styles, three of the works in this recording fall into his early neo-Classical period and exemplify his dictum that "to have a big foot in the future, you've got to have a big foot in the past." Symphony No. 1 in G major is lyrical, bucolic and subtly jazz influenced, while the Three American Pieces show Aaron Copland's "open air" influence. Foss's Ode expresses his feelings about the loss of American lives during the Second World War, and Renaissance Concerto is a "handshake across the centuries" ingeniously spiced with unexpected harmonic twists
Tracks:
Ode (1944, rev. 1958)
Renaissance Concerto (1985)
Three American Pieces (1944-45, orch. 1989)
Symphony No. 1 in G major (1944)
