Danielpour: Songs of Solitude & War Songs / Hampson, Guerrero, Nashville Symphony

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Naxos
Release Date
October 14, 2016
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      DANIELPOUR, RICHARD
    • ORCHESTRA / ENSEMBLE
      Nashville Symphony
    • PERFORMER
      Hampson, Guerrero
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      October 14, 2016
    • UPC
      636943979228
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      8559792
    • LABEL
      Naxos
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Orchestral & Symphonic
    Works ⌄

    1. I. Prologue

      Composer: Richard Danielpour

      Ensemble: Nashville Symphony Orchestra

      Performer: Thomas Hampson

      Conductor: Giancarlo Guerrero

    2. II. Blood and the Moon

      Composer: Richard Danielpour

      Ensemble: Nashville Symphony Orchestra

      Performer: Thomas Hampson

      Conductor: Giancarlo Guerrero

    3. III. Drinking Song

      Composer: Richard Danielpour

      Ensemble: Nashville Symphony Orchestra

      Performer: Thomas Hampson

      Conductor: Giancarlo Guerrero

    4. IV. These are the Clouds

      Composer: Richard Danielpour

      Ensemble: Nashville Symphony Orchestra

      Performer: Thomas Hampson

      Conductor: Giancarlo Guerrero

    5. V. The Second Coming

      Composer: Richard Danielpour

      Ensemble: Nashville Symphony Orchestra

      Performer: Thomas Hampson

      Conductor: Giancarlo Guerrero

    6. VI. Epilogue

      Composer: Richard Danielpour

      Ensemble: Nashville Symphony Orchestra

      Performer: Thomas Hampson

      Conductor: Giancarlo Guerrero

    7. No. 1. Hush'd Be the Camps To-day

      Composer: Richard Danielpour

      Ensemble: Nashville Symphony Orchestra

      Performer: Thomas Hampson

      Conductor: Giancarlo Guerrero

    8. No. 2. Look Down, Fair Moon

      Composer: Richard Danielpour

      Ensemble: Nashville Symphony Orchestra

      Performer: Thomas Hampson

      Conductor: Giancarlo Guerrero

    9. No. 3. Reconciliation

      Composer: Richard Danielpour

      Ensemble: Nashville Symphony Orchestra

      Performer: Thomas Hampson

      Conductor: Giancarlo Guerrero

    10. No. 4. Year That Trembled and Reel'd Beneath Me

      Composer: Richard Danielpour

      Ensemble: Nashville Symphony Orchestra

      Performer: Thomas Hampson

      Conductor: Giancarlo Guerrero

    11. No. 5. Come Up From the Fields Father

      Composer: Richard Danielpour

      Ensemble: Nashville Symphony Orchestra

      Performer: Thomas Hampson

      Conductor: Giancarlo Guerrero

    12. Toward the Splendid City

      Composer: Richard Danielpour

      Ensemble: Nashville Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: Giancarlo Guerrero


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A 60th Annual Grammy Award Nominee

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. This is vivid music, subtle tonal-modern tour de force expressions, the main works heartfelt reactions to two of the most difficult historical periods in the USA.

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REVIEWS:

Performances are exceptionally well-wrought, detailed and strong. The sound is excellent. The music unforgettable. Very much recommended.

– Gapplegate Classical-Modern Music Review

Thomas Hampson…performs the music with just the right blend of evenness and emotional intensity, and the effect of the final and longest song, Come Up from the Fields Father, which lasts half the length of the whole cycle, is especially affecting here. The accompaniment by the Nashville Symphony under Giancarlo Guerrero is nuanced and subtle throughout, fitting the music very well indeed. Hampson and Guerrero are also well-teamed for Songs of Solitude.

– Infodad.com (October 2016)