Composer: Richard Danielpour
Performer: Thomas Hampson
Orchestra: Nashville Symphony Orchestra
Conductor: Giancarlo Guerrero
Audio CD
Number of Discs: 1
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Naxos
Size: 1.03 GB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
Danielpour: Songs of Solitude
01. I. Prologue
02. II. Blood and the Moon
03. III. Drinking Song
04. IV. These are the Clouds
05. V. The Second Coming
06. VI. Epilogue
Danielpour: War Songs
07. No. 1. Hush’d Be the Camps To-day
08. No. 2. Look Down, Fair Moon
09. No. 3. Reconciliation
10. No. 4. Year That Trembled and Reel’d Beneath Me
11. No. 5. Come Up From the Fields Father
12. Danielpour: Toward the Splendid City
Recorded: 12-14 March 2015
Recording Venue: Laura Turner Concert Hall, Schermerhorn Symphony Center, Nashville, USA
Acclaimed as one of America’s leading contemporary composers, Richard Danielpour wrote Songs of Solitude as a response to the events of 9/11. Drawing on the poems of W.B. Yeats, the work enshrines a sense of economy and sparseness, formed of a set of six powerful orchestral songs. The motivating force for War Songs was a series of photographs of the young men and women killed in the Iraq War. The song cycle, with its texts by Walt Whitman, was written for the Nashville Symphony to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the end of the Civil War. Toward the Splendid City is a portrait of New York City driven by Danielpour’s love-hate relationship with his hometown.