Kenneth Fuchs: Works for Baritone Voice & Orchestra Roderick Williams

• 1 Introduction - 01:29
• 2 Aria No. 1 - 01:42
• 3 Interlude No. 1 - 01:13
• 4 Aria No. 2 - 01:51
• 5 Interlude No. 2 - 00:33
• 6 Aria No. 3 - 04:14
• 7 Interlude No. 3 - 02:06
• 8 Aria No. 4 - 02:19
• 9 Coda: Aria No. 5 02:59
• 10 I. Telephone Poles 06:04
• 11 II. Maples in a Spruce Forest 04:15
• 12 III. Seagulls 07:35
• 13 IV. The Short Days 02:58
• 14 V. Movie House - 05:21
• 15 VI. Modigliani's Death Mask 02:43
• 16 VII. Summer: West Side 04:55
• 17 I. The Lamb 02:37
• 18 II. Holy Thursday 03:51
• 19 III. Spring 01:11
• 20 IV. The Tyger 01:36
• Total Runtime 01:01:32

Info for Kenneth Fuchs: Works for Baritone Voice & Orchestra

Composer Kenneth Fuchs and conductor JoAnn Falletta completed their fourth recording with the London Symphony Orchestra at Abbey Road Studios, 30 August–1 September 2013.

The recording features baritone and Naxos artist Roderick Williams and is produced by GRAMMY® Award-winner Tim Handley. Repertoire includes: Falling Man (for baritone voice and orchestra); Movie House (seven poems by John Updike for baritone voice and chamber ensemble); and Songs of Innocence and of Experience (four poems by William Blake for baritone voice and chamber ensemble).

Roderick Williams, baritone
London Symphony Orchestra
JoAnn Falletta, conductor

Roderick Williams
sings a wide repertoire, from baroque to contemporary music, in the opera house, on the concert platform, and in recital. He has performed in all the major opera houses in the United Kingdom and is particularly associated with the baritone rôles of Mozart. He has also sung world premières of operas by David Sawer, Sally Beamish, Michael van der Aa, Robert Saxton and Alexander Knaifel. Williams sings concert repertoire with all the BBC orchestras as well as the Bournemouth Symphony, London Sinfonietta, Philharmonia Orchestra, Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, Russian National Orchestra, and Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, among many others. His festival appearances include the BBC Proms, Edinburgh, Cheltenham, Aldeburgh and Melbourne. Roderick Williams is also a composer and has had works performed at the Barbican Centre, the Purcell Room, and Wigmore Hall.

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