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Csányi-Wills: Songs With Orchestra
Toccata

Csányi-Wills: Songs With Orchestra

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Composer
CSANYI-WILLS, MICHAEL
Artist
Domnich, Imbrailo, Spence, Mckay, Eager
Format
CD
Label
Toccata
Released
Jan 08, 2016
Catalog #
TOCC0329
UPC
5060113443298

About

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.

Tracklist 10 tracks

  1. 1 No. 1. The Waldsee Postcard 03:19
    Track
    1
    Title
    No. 1. The Waldsee Postcard
    Duration
    03:19
    Composer
    Michael Csányi-Wills
    Performer
    Ilona Domnich
    Ensemble
    Londamis Ensemble
    Conductor
    Mark Eager
  2. 2 No. 2. The Siege 05:20
    Track
    2
    Title
    No. 2. The Siege
    Duration
    05:20
    Composer
    Michael Csányi-Wills
    Ensemble
    Londamis Ensemble
    Conductor
    Mark Eager
  3. 3 No. 3. The Last Letter 07:27
    Track
    3
    Title
    No. 3. The Last Letter
    Duration
    07:27
    Composer
    Michael Csányi-Wills
    Performer
    Ilona Domnich
    Ensemble
    Londamis Ensemble
    Conductor
    Mark Eager
  4. 4 No. 1. Farewell 06:16
    Track
    4
    Title
    No. 1. Farewell
    Duration
    06:16
    Composer
    Michael Csányi-Wills
    Performer
    Jacques Imbrailo, Nicky Spence
    Ensemble
    Londamis Ensemble
    Conductor
    Mark Eager
  5. 5 No. 2. Moonlit Heath 07:38
    Track
    5
    Title
    No. 2. Moonlit Heath
    Duration
    07:38
    Composer
    Michael Csányi-Wills
    Ensemble
    Londamis Ensemble
    Conductor
    Mark Eager
  6. 6 No. 3. Carpenter's Son 06:00
    Track
    6
    Title
    No. 3. Carpenter's Son
    Duration
    06:00
    Composer
    Michael Csányi-Wills
    Performer
    Jacques Imbrailo
    Ensemble
    Londamis Ensemble
    Conductor
    Mark Eager
  7. 7 No. 4. On the Idle Hill of Summer 05:18
    Track
    7
    Title
    No. 4. On the Idle Hill of Summer
    Duration
    05:18
    Composer
    Michael Csányi-Wills
    Performer
    Nicky Spence, Chris McKay
    Ensemble
    Londamis Ensemble
    Conductor
    Mark Eager
  8. 8 No. 5. White in the Moon 07:23
    Track
    8
    Title
    No. 5. White in the Moon
    Duration
    07:23
    Composer
    Michael Csányi-Wills
    Ensemble
    Londamis Ensemble
    Conductor
    Mark Eager
  9. 9 No. 6. As Through the Wild Green Hills of Wyre 07:04
    Track
    9
    Title
    No. 6. As Through the Wild Green Hills of Wyre
    Duration
    07:04
    Composer
    Michael Csányi-Wills
    Performer
    Nicky Spence
    Ensemble
    Londamis Ensemble
    Conductor
    Mark Eager
  10. 10 Elegy for Our Time 05:55
    Track
    10
    Title
    Elegy for Our Time
    Duration
    05:55
    Composer
    Michael Csányi-Wills
    Performer
    Ilona Domnich
    Ensemble
    Londamis Ensemble
    Conductor
    Mark Eager