One wouldn't normally consider Lukas Foss as a composer of Hebraic-themed music given his investment in arch-Americana and more experimental kinds of endeavors. However, it was because Foss and his family were Jewish that they fled Europe in 1937 and the future composer first made his way to America. One of his first great successes was the orchestral song cycle Song of Songs (1947), based on the Biblical love poem of that name. This entry in Naxos' Milken Archive series, Lukas Foss: Elegy for Anne Frank, covers four works ...
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One wouldn't normally consider Lukas Foss as a composer of Hebraic-themed music given his investment in arch-Americana and more experimental kinds of endeavors. However, it was because Foss and his family were Jewish that they fled Europe in 1937 and the future composer first made his way to America. One of his first great successes was the orchestral song cycle Song of Songs (1947), based on the Biblical love poem of that name. This entry in Naxos' Milken Archive series, Lukas Foss: Elegy for Anne Frank, covers four works of Foss that reach into Foss' Hebraic roots and adds another by composer Robert Beaser as a bonus. Foss has described the title work, Elegy for Anne Frank (1989), as "one of the most soulful things I have ever done," and soulful it genuinely is. It is a spare, relatively simple movement for piano and orchestra conceived as a narrated piece featuring extracts from Anne Frank's diaries, but over time it has gained popularity without the narration. Here pianist Kevin McCutcheon essays...
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