Foss: Time Cycle, Phorion, Song of Songs [Original recording remastered]

Lukas Foss (Composer, Performer), Leonard Bernstein (Conductor), New York Philharmonic Orchestra (Orchestra), Columbia Symphony Orchestra (Orchestra), Howard D. Colf (Performer), Richard Dufallo (Performer), Jennie Tourel (Performer), Adele Addison (Performer), Charles DeLancey (Performer) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Performer: Lukas Foss, Howard D. Colf, Richard Dufallo, Jennie Tourel, Adele Addison, et al.
• Orchestra: New York Philharmonic Orchestra, Columbia Symphony Orchestra
• Conductor: Leonard Bernstein
• Composer: Lukas Foss
• Audio CD (October 28, 1997)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Original recording remastered
• Label: Sony
• ASIN: B0000029XZ
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #25,026 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Time Cycle (Orchestral Version): I. 'We're Late'

2. Time Cycle (Orchestral Version): Improvised Interlude No. 1

3. Time Cycle (Orchestral Version): II. 'When The Bells Justle'

4. Time Cycle (Orchestral Version): Improvised Interlude No. 2

5. Time Cycle (Orchestral Version): III. 'Sechzehnter Januar'

6. Time Cycle (Orchestral Version): Improvised Interlude No. 3

7. Time Cycle (Orchestral Version): IV. 'O Mensch, gib Acht'

8. Phorion

9. Song Of Songs: I. 'Awake, O North Wind'

10. Song Of Songs: II. 'Come, My Beloved'

11. Song Of Songs: III. 'By Night On My Bed'

12. Song Of Songs: IV. 'Set Me A Seal Upon Thine Heart'

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Wait rewarded, May 11, 2000

By 

Timothy Cullen (Sevilla Espana) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Foss: Time Cycle, Phorion, Song of Songs (Audio CD)

I heard Time Cycle as a teenager when it first came out and still treasure my 33 1/3 record, which I've told my son to guard with his life. I've waited YEARS for the piece to be re-released on cd and at last, it has been.

I believe that Foss deserves far more recognition than he's received, and this piece will show why. It should be noted that it was encored immediately after its premiere performance in '61, was it? It won the NY Music Critics Circle award too. It's haunting and I shall play it for everyone who sets foot in my home. I live in Spain and recently requested an airing of it on our national clasical music station's request show.

The Time Cycle is an unsung (forgive pun)masterpiece of Twentieth Century twelve-tone composition and superbly sung by the late Adele Addison.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars great music from Lucas foss and great performances, May 7, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Foss: Time Cycle, Phorion, Song of Songs (Audio CD)

Three diverse scores by Lucas foss that show him to be a composer of uncommon gifts. His Time Cycle my well be one of the masterpieces of the vocal/orchestral literature of the 20th century. The great Adele Addison gives a magnificnet performance, Again the recording executives passed up the opportunity to record this great American singer in her vast repetoire that spanned early baroque to contemporary--She was one of the great lieder singers of her generation matching the great Irmgard Seefried -but nothing exists on disc of Addison's Schubert ot Hugo Wolf or Charles Ives--What a loss

5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Wait Rewarded With Good News, August 23, 2000

By 

Timothy Cullen (Sevilla Espana) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Foss: Time Cycle, Phorion, Song of Songs (Audio CD)

Addendum to earlier review: Adele Addison is alive and well and a member of the faculty at the Manhattan School of Music, very good news for me and for all music lovers. My apologies for my error.