Danielpour: Darkness in the Ancient Valley / Guerrero, Nashville Symphony

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Label
Naxos
Release Date
September 24, 2013
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      DANIELPOUR
    • ORCHESTRA / ENSEMBLE
      Nashville Symphony
    • PERFORMER
      Hila Plitmann, Angela Brown, Giancarlo Guerrero
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      September 24, 2013
    • UPC
      636943970720
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      8559707
    • LABEL
      Naxos
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Orchestral & Symphonic
    Works ⌄

    1. I. Lamentation

      Composer: Richard Danielpour

      Ensemble: Nashville Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: Giancarlo Guerrero

    2. II. Desecration

      Composer: Richard Danielpour

      Ensemble: Nashville Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: Giancarlo Guerrero

    3. III. Benediction

      Composer: Richard Danielpour

      Ensemble: Nashville Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: Giancarlo Guerrero

    4. IV. Profanation

      Composer: Richard Danielpour

      Ensemble: Nashville Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: Giancarlo Guerrero

    5. V. Finale: Consecration

      Composer: Richard Danielpour

      Ensemble: Nashville Symphony Orchestra

      Performer: Hila Plitmann

      Conductor: Giancarlo Guerrero

    6. Lacrimae Beati

      Composer: Richard Danielpour

      Ensemble: Nashville Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: Giancarlo Guerrero

    7. I. Little Girl Speakings

      Composer: Richard Danielpour

      Ensemble: Nashville Symphony Orchestra

      Performer: Angela Brown

      Conductor: Giancarlo Guerrero

    8. II. Life Doesn't Frighten Me

      Composer: Richard Danielpour

      Ensemble: Nashville Symphony Orchestra

      Performer: Angela Brown

      Conductor: Giancarlo Guerrero

    9. III. They Went Home

      Composer: Richard Danielpour

      Ensemble: Nashville Symphony Orchestra

      Performer: Angela Brown

      Conductor: Giancarlo Guerrero

    10. IV. Come and Be My Baby

      Composer: Richard Danielpour

      Ensemble: Nashville Symphony Orchestra

      Performer: Angela Brown

      Conductor: Giancarlo Guerrero

    11. V. Let's Majeste

      Composer: Richard Danielpour

      Ensemble: Nashville Symphony Orchestra

      Performer: Angela Brown

      Conductor: Giancarlo Guerrero

    12. VI. My Life Has Turned to Blue

      Composer: Richard Danielpour

      Ensemble: Nashville Symphony Orchestra

      Performer: Angela Brown

      Conductor: Giancarlo Guerrero

    13. VII. Many and More

      Composer: Richard Danielpour

      Ensemble: Nashville Symphony Orchestra

      Performer: Angela Brown

      Conductor: Giancarlo Guerrero


Musicians ranging from Leonard Bernstein to the Emerson String Quartet have championed award-winning composer Richard Danielpour. Lacrimae Beati owes its origin to Mozart’s Requiem and was conceived after a perilous flight in 2002. Darkness in the Ancient Valley, a symphony in five movements inspired by recent events in Iran, utilizes a wide range of Persian folk-melodies and Sufi rhythms. A Woman’s Life, a cycle of poems by Maya Angelou, charts a moving trajectory from childhood to old age.

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REVIEW:

The program closes with A Woman’s Life (2007), based on a cycle of poems on that topic by Maya Angelou, who read the cycle, apparently unforgettably, to Danielpour and his wife in 2006. These songs are pitch perfect and memorably touching. I was enthralled from the start—a childhood poem of devastating innocence cloaked with an aura usually reserved for the likes of Barber—and if you love his music and American song repertoire in general you must hear this cycle. The finale is unspeakably beautiful. Ms Brown sings with loving understanding. The Nashville players sound great, as is usual these days.

–American Record Guide