Danielpour / Hampson / Nashville Symphony: Songs of Solitude / War Songs

Richard Danielpour: Songs of Solitude / War Songs - COMPACT DISCS

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Songs of Solitude / War Songs

Artist:

Richard Danielpour

Label:

Naxos

Product Type:

COMPACT DISCS

UPC:

636943979228

Genre:

Classical

Release Date:

2016-10-14

Number of Discs:

1

DANIELPOUR, R.: Songs of Solitude / War Songs / Toward the Splendid City (Hampson, Nashville Symphony, Guerrero) 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 it's 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.

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