Londamis Ensemble- Csanyi-Wills: Songs with Orchestra (CD)
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:
- 3 Songs "Budapest, 1944": No. 1. The Waldsee Postcard
- 3 Songs "Budapest, 1944": No. 2. The Siege
- 3 Songs "Budapest, 1944": No. 3. The Last Letter
- 6 A.E. Housman Songs: No. 1. Farewell
- No. 2. Moonlit Heath
- 6 A.E. Housman Songs: No. 3. Carpenter's Son
- 6 A.E. Housman Songs: No. 4. On The Idle Hill Of Summer
- 6 A.E. Housman Songs: No. 5. White In The Moon
- 6 A.E. Housman Songs: No. 6. As Through The Wild Green Hills Of Wyre
- Elegy For Our Time
> Due to the current limited nature of music titles, ALL CD & Vinyl purchases are limited to FOUR copies per customer, per item. If you place multiple orders for multiples of the same title, your subsequent orders will be canceled.
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:
- 3 Songs "Budapest, 1944": No. 1. The Waldsee Postcard
- 3 Songs "Budapest, 1944": No. 2. The Siege
- 3 Songs "Budapest, 1944": No. 3. The Last Letter
- 6 A.E. Housman Songs: No. 1. Farewell
- No. 2. Moonlit Heath
- 6 A.E. Housman Songs: No. 3. Carpenter's Son
- 6 A.E. Housman Songs: No. 4. On The Idle Hill Of Summer
- 6 A.E. Housman Songs: No. 5. White In The Moon
- 6 A.E. Housman Songs: No. 6. As Through The Wild Green Hills Of Wyre
- Elegy For Our Time
> Due to the current limited nature of music titles, ALL CD & Vinyl purchases are limited to FOUR copies per customer, per item. If you place multiple orders for multiples of the same title, your subsequent orders will be canceled.