Csányi-Wills: Songs With Orchestra

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Label
Toccata
Release Date
January 8, 2016
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      CSANYI-WILLS, MICHAEL
    • ORCHESTRA / ENSEMBLE
      Londamis Ensemble
    • PERFORMER
      Domnich, Imbrailo, Spence, Mckay, Eager
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      January 08, 2016
    • UPC
      5060113443298
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      TOCC0329
    • LABEL
      Toccata
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Vocal
    Works ⌄

    1. No. 1. The Waldsee Postcard

      Composer: Michael Csányi-Wills

      Ensemble: Londamis Ensemble

      Performer: Ilona Domnich

      Conductor: Mark Eager

    2. No. 2. The Siege

      Composer: Michael Csányi-Wills

      Ensemble: Londamis Ensemble

      Conductor: Mark Eager

    3. No. 3. The Last Letter

      Composer: Michael Csányi-Wills

      Ensemble: Londamis Ensemble

      Performer: Ilona Domnich

      Conductor: Mark Eager

    4. No. 1. Farewell

      Composer: Michael Csányi-Wills

      Ensemble: Londamis Ensemble

      Performer: Jacques Imbrailo, Nicky Spence

      Conductor: Mark Eager

    5. No. 2. Moonlit Heath

      Composer: Michael Csányi-Wills

      Ensemble: Londamis Ensemble

      Conductor: Mark Eager

    6. No. 3. Carpenter's Son

      Composer: Michael Csányi-Wills

      Ensemble: Londamis Ensemble

      Performer: Jacques Imbrailo

      Conductor: Mark Eager

    7. No. 4. On the Idle Hill of Summer

      Composer: Michael Csányi-Wills

      Ensemble: Londamis Ensemble

      Performer: Nicky Spence, Chris McKay

      Conductor: Mark Eager

    8. No. 5. White in the Moon

      Composer: Michael Csányi-Wills

      Ensemble: Londamis Ensemble

      Conductor: Mark Eager

    9. No. 6. As Through the Wild Green Hills of Wyre

      Composer: Michael Csányi-Wills

      Ensemble: Londamis Ensemble

      Performer: Nicky Spence

      Conductor: Mark Eager

    10. Elegy for Our Time

      Composer: Michael Csányi-Wills

      Ensemble: Londamis Ensemble

      Performer: Ilona Domnich

      Conductor: Mark Eager


These orchestral songs by the English composer Michael Csanyi-Wills - best known for his film music - all deal with the subject of loss. In Three Sogns: Budapest, 1944 Csanyi-Wills uses documentation from his own family history to shadow the fat of Hungary's Jews under the Nazis. One of them, "The Last Letter", sets a text written by his great-grandmother before she disappeared. Mortality is an omnipresent theme in A.E. Houseman's Shropshire Lad poems: Csanyi-Wills sets six songs, three for baritone and three for tenor. Elegy for Our Time sets an anguished lament by Jessica d'Este, sparked by death of her granddaughter in a car crash. Csanyi-Wills responds to the stimulus of these dark texts with music that is hauntingly lyrical and elegiac.