Foss, Lukas [Composer]

Global Reflections: Works for Oboe & Orchestra by Strauss, Sierra, Foss, etc. / Nancy Ambrose King, oboe

1 CD / Equilibrium / 2012-05-08

Works: Richard Strauss: Concerto for Oboe in D major, AV 144; Gunther Schuller: Concertino for oboe; Roberto Sierra: Poema y Danza, concerto for 2 oboes & strings; Lukas Foss: Concerto for oboe & orchestra
Performers: Colon, Frances; King, Nancy Ambrose
Conductors: Markou, Kypros
Ensemble: ; Prague Chamber Orchestra

Nancy Ambrose King is the first prizewinner of the third New York International Competition for solo oboists. She has appeared as a soloist through the...continue...
Recording information: Domovina Studios, Prague, Czech Republic (07/2011)....continue...

13 Ways of Looking at the Goldberg

1 CD / CD Baby Independants / 2011-09-20

Works: Johann Sebastian Bach: Goldberg Variations, BWV 988; French Suite V, BWV 816; Fred Lerdahl: Chasing Goldberg, for piano; Jennifer Higdon: The Gilmore Variation, for piano; Bright Sheng: Variation Fug...
Performers: Downes, Lara [Piano]

Recording information: Patrych Sound Studios, The Bronx, NY (06/15/2011-06/16/2011).

13 Ways of Looking at the Goldberg, its title riffing not only on Bach's Goldberg Variations, BWV 988, but a...continue...

Chris Brubeck: Danza del Soul; Michael Gandolfi: Line Drawings; Lukas Foss: Central Park Reel

1 CD / Reference Recordings / 2011-06-14

Works: Chris Brubeck: Danza del Soul, for clarinet, violin, cello, bass, piano & percussion; Michael Gandolfi: Line Drawings, for clarinet, violin & piano; Lukas Foss: Central Park Reel, for violin & piano
Performers: Baksys, Vytas; Bauch, Daniel; Martin, Thomas [Clarinet]; Putnam, Wendy; Young, Owen

This debut album contains two world premiere recordings. The first, "Danza del Soul" for mixed sextet, is by Chris Brubeck. Chris bears one of the...continue...
Recording information: Mechanics Hall, Worcester, Massachusetts, U.S.A (09/03/2010-09/05/2010)....continue...

American Artistry: American Landscapes

1 CD / EMI Classics / 2011-04-05

Works: John Corigliano: Troubadours, variations for guitar & orchestra; Joseph Schwantner: From Afar; Lukas Foss: American Landscapes for Guitar and orchestra
Performers: Isbin, Sharon
Conductors: Wolff, Hugh

Acclaimed for her extraordinary lyricism, technique and versatility, Sharon Isbin has been hailed as "the pre-eminent guitarist of our time". Her American Landscapes disc with...continue...
Selections recorded October 10-11, 1993 and November 27-28, 1994.

Recording information: Orchestra Hall, Minneapolis, MN (1993-10-10_1993-10-11&1994-)....continue...

Quartet at the Crossroads

1 CD / Ravello / 2010-08-31

Works: Lukas Foss: Saxophone Quartet; Richard Brooks: Four Play, for saxophone quartet; Gregory Hall: Saxophone Quartet; Barbara Jazwinski: Images in Blue, for saxophone quartet; Michael J. Veloso: Parquet ...
Conductors:
Ensemble: New Hudson Saxophone Quartet

Recording information: Oktaven Aucio LLC, Yonkers, NY....continue...

American Choral Music: Persichetti, Schuman, Bolcom, Fine, Ross

1 CD / Naxos (USA) / 2010-07-27

Works: Vincent Persichetti: Mass, for mixed chorus, Op 84; William Schuman: Carols of Death, pieces (3) for chorus; William Bolcom: The Mask, for chorus, piano & chamber ensemble; Irving Fine: The Hour Glas...
Performers: Bigler, Dwight; Gorina, Alena; Holt, Lisa Roane; Neuville, Eric; Ruduski, Meredith; Wiles, John
Conductors: Morrow, James

American choral music has many faces and, while aware of tradition, often looks resolutely towards the future. Vincent Persichetti's Mass envelops an original cantus firmus...continue...
Recording information: University Presbyterian Church, Austin, Texas (05/21/2007-05/22/2007)....continue...

Lukas Foss: Curriculum Vitae

1 CD / New World / 2010-04-13

Works: Lukas Foss: Quartet for Strings No 3; Music for Six for any six treble clef instruments; Curriculum Vitae, for accordion; Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird for voice, flute, percussion & piano
Performers: Dick, Robert; Freni, Rosemarie [Vocals]; Klucevsek, Guy; Mikhashoff, Yvar; Williams, Jan
Conductors:
Ensemble: University of Buffalo Percussion Ensemble

The four works on this disc represent the culmination of Lukas Foss's long period of experimentation beginning in the mid-1950s. The String Quartet No. 3...continue...
Recording information: New York City....continue...

1967 Carnegie Hall Marathon / Rostropovich, Rozhdestvensky, et al

6 CD / Doremi / 2009-10-13

Works: Edward Elgar: Concerto for Cello; Dmitry Shostakovich: Concerto for Cello no 2 in G major, Op. 126; Walter Piston: Variations for cello & orchestra; Boris Tchaikovsky: Partita for cello, piano, harps...
Performers: Adams, Glynne [viola]; Perlman, Itzhak; Rostropovich, Mstislav
Conductors: Rozhdestvensky, Gennady; Foss, Lukas [Composer]

At Carnegie Hall in 1967, Mstislav Rostropovich presented 30 cello concertos in eight concerts organized by impresario Sol Yurok. This 6-CD set includes 22 of...continue...

Foss: The Prairie / Clark, Boston Modern Orchestra Project, et al

1 Super Audio CD / BMOP/Sound / 2008-11-11

Works: Lukas Foss: The Prairie, secular cantata for 4 voices, chorus & orchestra
Performers: Engebreth, Aaron; Kelley, Frank; Mitchell-Velasco, Gigi; Weigle, Elisabeth
Conductors: Clark, Andrew

Lukas Foss' "The Prairie" is a secular oratorio based on Carl Sandburg's epic poem of the same name. Drawing upon Sandburg's journey through the landscape...continue...

American Reflections - Beaser, Foss, Dahl / Leonard Garrison, Jonathan Sokasits

1 CD / Albany Records / 2008-11-11

Works: Robert Beaser: Souvenirs, for piccolo & piano; Variations for flute & piano; Lukas Foss: American Pieces (3) for violin & piano; Ingolf Dahl: Variations on a Swedish Folk Tune, for flute
Performers: Garrison, Leonard; Sokasits, Jonathan

Rhythmic vitality, lyricism, a fascination with folksong and virtuosity, and a distinctive American voice are traits that unite the four works on this recording performed...continue...

American in Rome - Beaser, Barber, Thompson, etc / Six for Five Wind Quintet

4 CD / Bridge / 2008-10-14

Works: Robert Beaser: Four Dickinson Songs, for soprano & piano; Samuel Barber: In the Dark Pinewood; Beggar's Song; Of that so sweet imprisonment; Songs (3), Op. 10; Randall Thompson: Siciliano, for barito...
Performers: Ahlbeck, Laura; Akahoshi, Ole; Arnold, Tony [Soprano Vocal]; Bagg, Jonathan; Baker, James; Berman, Donald; Druckman, Daniel; Kavafian, Ida [Violin]; Leisenring, John; Lim, Sunghae Anna; Macomber, Cur...
Conductors: Milarsky, Jeffrey; Yoo, Scott; ; Hoose, David
Ensemble: ; Collage Music Ensemble; Curiously Strong Wind Quintet; Opus One Piano Quartet; Trio Solisti

This four-disc collection contains works by 37 composers who composed these pieces while in residence at the American Academy in Rome. The earliest work dates...continue...

Stravinsky: Duo Concertant; Foss: String Quartet 1 /Shapiro

1 CD / Crystal Records / 2007-05-01

Works: Igor Stravinsky: Duo Concertante, for violin & piano; Divertimento, transcription for violin & piano by Stravinsky & Samuel Dushkin (after The Fairy's Kis; Lukas Foss: Quartet for Strings no 1
Performers: Shapiro, Eudice; Smith, Brooks

American Classics - American Choral Music

1 CD / Naxos (USA) / 2006-11-21

Works: Vincent Persichetti: Flower Songs (Cantata no 6), for mixed chorus & string orchestra , Op. 157; Charles Ives: Psalm 90 "Lord, thou hast been"; John Corigliano: Fern Hill, for mezzo-soprano, chorus &...
Performers: Anderson, Thad; Asbell, Ames; Barber, Elaine; Cho, Seung Won; Cluff, Darlene; Colson, Bruce; Coltman-Smith, Margaret; Dawson, David; Depue, Wallace; Francis, Graeme; Gedigian, Marianne; Gilliam-Valls...
Conductors: Morrow, James
Ensemble: University of Texas Chamber Orchestra; University of Texas Chamber Singers

"The fine Copland performance concludes an excellent disc. The choir is consistently splendid. It's evident that James Morrow has trained them very well indeed. Balance,...continue...

The Milken Archive of American Jewish Music [Box Set]

51 CD / Naxos (USA) / 2006-11-21

Works: Joseph Achron: Concerto for Violin no 1, Op. 60; Golem, suite for chamber orchestra; Belshazzar; Samuel Adler: Sephardic Choruses (5), for chorus (from Ever Since Babylon); Nuptial Scene, for voice &...
Performers: Abelson, Robert; Adler, Bruce; Aler, John [Tenor Vocal]; Allardyce, Lauren; Arnold, Hubert; Aslan, Pablo; Avila, Jorge; Barr, Jean; Barrick, Clinton; Ben-Ze'ev, Re'ut; Bermel, Derek; Besley, Megan; B...
Conductors: Silverstein, Joseph; Schwarz, Gerard; Gardner, Patrick; Adler, Samuel; Winther, Rodney; Wilkins, Christopher; Kiesler, Kenneth; Itai, Avner; Marriner, Sir Neville; Corp, Ronald [Composer]; Levin, Nei...
Ensemble: ; Chamber Opera Ensemble; Cincinnati Wind Symphony; Dave Brubeck Trio; Eastman Players; Finchley Children's Music Group; Pittsburgh New Music Ensemble; Schola Hebraeica Chorus; Southern Jazz Ensemble...

Includes ashrei (ashrei yoshvei veitekha (l. glantz) / eine by various composers.

Includes b'motza'ei m'nuha (assembled for "the first s'liho by various composers....continue...

American Classics - American Journey

1 CD / Naxos (USA) / 2006-07-25

Works: Robert Russell Bennett: Hexapoda, 5 studies in jitteroptera for violin & piano; Lukas Foss: American Pieces (3) for violin & piano; Leonard Bernstein: Sonata for violin & piano; Aaron Copland: Pieces...
Performers: Forsyth, Amanda [Cello]; Grusin, Dave; Mayorga, Lincoln; Steinhardt, Arnold; Steinhardt, Victor

In this American Journey, violinist Arnold Steinhardt performs some of his favorite twentieth-century works for violin. From the "indigenous", Negro spiritual nature of the African-American...continue...

Caroline Hong Plays Corigliano, Foss & Vine

1 CD / Fleur de Son / 2005-09-01

Works: John Corigliano: Etude Fantasy; Lukas Foss: Solo for piano; Carl Vine: Sonata for Piano no 1
Performers: Hong, Caroline

MIlken Archive - Lukas Foss, Robert Beaser / Gerard Schwarz

1 CD / Naxos (USA) / 2005-04-19

Works: Lukas Foss: Song of Anguish, cantata for baritone & orchestra; Elegy for Anne Frank, for orchestra, piano solo & narrator; Lammdeni, for chorus & percussion ensemble; Adon Olom, for tenor, chorus & o...
Performers: Bowers-Broadbent, Christopher; Hauman, Constance; Maddalena, James; McCutcheon, Kevin; Wilde, Mark
Conductors: Schwarz, Gerard; Wilkins, Christopher; Brewer, Michael
Ensemble: Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra; Laudibus; Seattle Symphony Orchestra

A major force on the American music scene for more than six decades, Lucas Foss has achieved remarkable distinction as a composer, conductor and pianist....continue...

American Classics - Foss Complete Works for Solo Piano

1 CD / Naxos (USA) / 2005-02-22

Works: Lukas Foss: Scherzo Ricercato, for solo piano; Passacaglia, for solo piano; Grotesque Dance, for solo piano; Prelude in D; Fantasy Rondo for piano; Four Two-Part Inventions, for solo piano; For Lenny...
Performers: Dunn, Scott

"Scott Dunn, a collaborator and friend of the composer's, play with considerable understanding and skill. None of these pieces is great music, perhaps, but there...continue...

American Souvenir - Foss, etc / Dennis, Henry, Amalong

1 CD / Albany Records / 2005-01-01

Works: Lukas Foss: American Pieces (3) for violin & piano; Gary Schocker: A Fond Farewell; Meditations on September 11, for flute & piano; Airheads for flute & B flat clarinet; Vincent Persichetti: Parable ...
Performers: Amalong, Philip; Dennis, Jeannine

American Piano Music of the 1940s / Sara Laimon

1 CD / Albany Records / 2004-08-01

Works: Lukas Foss: Fantasy Rondo for piano; Elliott Carter: Sonata for Piano; Leonard Bernstein: Anniversaries (7), for piano; Carl Ruggles: Evocations, chants (4) for piano; Leon Kirchner: Sonata for Piano...
Performers: Laimon, Sara

Del Barroco y del Romanticismo al Siglo XXI / Prieto, et al

1 CD / Urtext (Mexico) / 2004-01-01

Works: George Frederick Handel: Suite no 7 (as used in the film "Got Rot Tunbridge Wells"); Pyotr Il'yich Tchaikovsky: Pezzo capriccioso for Cello and Orchestra in B minor, Op. 62; Sergey Rachmaninov: Songs...
Performers: Hermida, Juan; Prieto, Carlos Miguel [Cello]; Quintana, Edison; R., Juan Luis Prieto

Carlos Prieto and Edison Quintana both hail from Mexico and have worked together successfully for nearly two decades, premiering countless works by Spanish & Latin...continue...

Foss Plays Foss - American Pieces, etc / P. Quint, R. Alvino

1 CD / Elysium / 2003-10-01

Works: Lukas Foss: Fantasy Rondo for piano; Solo for piano; American Pieces (3) for violin & piano; Griffelkin, opera; Central Park Reel, for violin & piano
Performers: Alvino, Rosemary; Foss, Lukas [Composer]; Quint, Philippe

Foss: Griffelkin / Gil Rose, Boston Modern Orchestra Project

2 CD / Chandos Records / 2003-05-20

Works: Lukas Foss: Griffelkin, opera
Performers: Arroyo, Glorivy; Baty, Janna; Bird, Anne Carolyn; Broadman, Elinor; Browder, Emily; Colton, Kendra; Cushing, David M.; Eggleston, Sarah; Engebreth, Aaron; Harley, Anne; Howe, Alison; Iwama, Misa Ann;...
Conductors: Rose, Gil
Ensemble: Boston Children's Opera members

"Griffelkin is a 'pants role', here sung by soprano Kendra Colton. She is a sheer delight! Easily mimicking the voice of a boy, yet still...continue...

Foss: Griffelkin / Gil Rose, Boston Modern Orchestra Project

2 Super Audio CD / Chandos Records / 2003-05-20

Works: Lukas Foss: Griffelkin, opera
Performers: Arroyo, Glorivy; Baty, Janna; Bird, Anne Carolyn; Broadman, Elinor; Browder, Emily; Colton, Kendra; Cushing, David M.; Eggleston, Sarah; Engebreth, Aaron; Harley, Anne; Howe, Alison; Iwama, Misa Ann;...
Conductors: Rose, Gil
Ensemble: Boston Children's Opera members

Fanfare
The cast is, for the most part, superb. The diction is so clear that the need for the printed libretto is minimal, and everything is...continue...

Twentieth Century "Contrasts" / Pensis, Miramar Sinfonietta

1 CD / Albany Records / 2002-05-01

Works: Michael Daugherty: Strut; Lukas Foss: For Toru, for flute & ensemble; William Bolcom: Concerto Serenade for Violin and Strings; James Ray Hanna: Downs; Alec Wilder: Love Songs (5), for horn & piano (...
Performers: Barnewitz, William; Segnitz, Eric; Waterbury, Susan

Darkness & Light Vol 3 -Stern, Foss, et al /Honigberg, et al

1 CD / Albany Records / 2001-04-01

Works: Robert Stern: Hazharah, for cello & piano; Tom Myron: Käthe Kollwitz, for soprano & string quartet; Lukas Foss: Elegy for Anne Frank, for cello & piano; Karl Ignaz Weigl: Piano Trio
Performers: Brake, Kathryn; Donnellan, Glenn; Green, Patricia; Holt, Joseph; Honigberg, Carol; Honigberg, Steven; Marsh, George; Sakamoto, Tsuna

The Westminster Choir - O Magnum Mysterium

1 CD / Chesky / 2001-01-01

Works: Edgar Leslie Bainton: And I Saw a New Heaven, anthem for chorus & organ; Benjamin Britten: Festival Te Deum in E major, Op. 32; Tomás Luis de Victoria: O magnum mysterium; Francis Poulenc: O m...
Performers: Parrella, Nancianne
Conductors: Flummerfelt, Joseph
Ensemble: Westminster Choir

The Classical Collection - Vivaldi, Mozart, Ravel, etc

1 CD / Chesky / 2001-01-01

Works: Antonio Vivaldi: Concerto for Violin in E major, Op. 8 no 1/RV 269 "Primavera"; Concerto for Violin in G minor, Op. 8 no 2/RV 315 "L'estate"; Johann Sebastian Bach: Sonata for flute & continuo in E m...
Performers: Kipnis, Igor [Harpsichord/Piano]; Meshulam, Benita; Schocker, Gary; Wild, Earl [Piano]
Conductors: Kipnis, Igor; Flummerfelt, Joseph; ; Giunta, Joseph; Wilson, Ransom
Ensemble: Ahn Trio; Connecticut Early Music Festival Ensemble; Des Moines Symphony Orchestra; Solisti New York; Westminster Choir

Suite Enfantine / Israelievitch, Sebastian

1 CD / Fleur de Son / 1998-11-05

Works: Aaron Copland: Rodeo; Samuel Gardner: From the Canebrake, for violin & piano, Op. 5; Lukas Foss: Composer's Holiday for violin & piano; Claude Pascal: Popcorn, for violin & piano; Maurice Ravel: Berc...
Performers: Israelievitch, Jacques

Foss: Concerto for Oboe; Bach, Handel, et al /Gassman, Endo

1 CD / Crystal Records / 1997-02-04

Works: Johann Sebastian Bach: Musical Offering, BWV 1079; George Frederick Handel: Work(s); Boris Pillin: Pieces (3) for double-reed septet; George Heussenstamm: Set for double-reed ensemble, Op. 39; Lukas ...
Performers: Gassman, Bert
Conductors: Endo, Akira
Ensemble: Crystal Chamber Orchestra; Los Angeles Philharmonic members

The American Album -Bernstein, Barber, Foss / Perlman, Ozawa

1 CD / EMI Classics Import / 1995-05-09

Works: Leonard Bernstein: Serenade for Violin and Orchestra "after Plato's Symposium"; Samuel Barber: Concerto for Violin Op. 14; Lukas Foss: Early Song for violin & piano; Dedication for violin & piano; Co...
Performers: Eskin, Jules; Perlman, Itzhak
Conductors: Ozawa, Seiji
Ensemble: Boston Symphony Orchestra

incitation to desire - Tangos for Yvar Mikhashoff

1 CD / New Albion / 1995-03-01

Works: Michael Sahl: Tango from Exiles' Cafe, for solo piano; John Cage: Perpetual Tango, for piano; Dane Rudhyar: Tango d'Antan, for piano; William Duckworth: Tango Voices, for piano; William Schimmel: Fro...
Performers: Mikhashoff, Yvar

Cello Charms / Michael Rudiakov, Ron Levy

1 CD / Centaur / 1993-09-01

Works: Moritz Moszkowski: Guitarre, Op. 45 no 2; Carl Maria von Weber: Adagio ... Carl Maria von Weber; Johann Sebastian Bach: Orchestral Suite no 3 in D major, BWV 1068; Felix Mendelssohn: Song without wor...
Performers: Levy, Ron; Rudiakov, Michael

Foss: Orpheus and Euridice / Foss, Brooklyn PO

1 CD / New World / 1992-12-08

Works: Lukas Foss: Renaissance Concerto for flute & orchestra; Salomon Rossi Suite for orchestra; Orpheus and Euridice for 2 violin & orchestra
Performers: Menuhin, Yehudi; Michell, Edna; Wincenc, Carol
Conductors: Foss, Lukas [Composer]
Ensemble: Brooklyn Philharmonic Orchestra

Pulse - Works by Cage, Harrison, Cowell, Sollberger, Foss

1 CD / New World / 1992-12-08

Works: John Cage / Lou Harrison: Double Music for percussion quartet; John Cage: Second Construction, for 4 percussionists; Third Construction, for 4 percussionists; Henry Cowell: Pulse, for percussion ense...
Performers: Grable, Joseph; Grossman, Kory; Heldrich, Claire; Preiss, James; Pugliese, Michael; Rendon, Mark; Shapiro, Madeleine; Trigg, William; Weber, Terri
Conductors: Heldrich, Claire
Ensemble: New Music Consort

American Music for Cello / Steven Honigberg, Kathryn Brake

1 CD / Albany Records / 1992-12-01

Works: Lukas Foss: Capriccio for cello & piano; David Diamond: Kaddish; Leonard Bernstein: Meditations (3) from "Mass", for cello & orchestra; also for cello & piano; Gunther Schuller: Fantasy for cello sol...
Performers: Brake, Kathryn; Honigberg, Steven