Title: Songs of Solitude / War Songs Artist: Richard Danielpour Label: Naxos Product Type: COMPACT DISCS UPC: 636943979228 Genre: Classical Release Date: 2016-10-14 Number of Discs: 1
DANIELPOUR, R.: Songs of Solitude / War Songs / Toward the Splendid City (Hampson, Nashville Symphony, Guerrero) 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 it's 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.
Tracks: 1.1 Songs of Solitude I. Prologue 00:03:28 1.2 II. Blood and the Moon 00:02:50 1.3 III. Drinking Song 00:05:36 1.4 IV. These Are the Clouds 00:03:34 1.5 V. the Second Coming 00:09:07 1.6 VI. Epilogue 00:04:05 1.7 War Songs Walt Whitman, Lyricist No. 1. Hush'd Be the Camps to - Day 00:03:50 1.8 No. 2. Look Down, Fair Moon 00:01:31 1.9 No. 3. Reconciliation 00:04:25 1.10 No. 4. Year That Trembled and Reel'd Beneath Me 00:02:36 1.11 No. 5. Come Up from the Fields Father 00:11:15 1.12 Toward the Splendid City Richard Danielpour 00:08:32
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