Ilona Domnich - Csányi-Wills: Songs with Orchestra (2016) Hi-Res

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Title: Csányi-Wills: Songs with Orchestra
Year Of Release: 2016
Label: Toccata Classics
Genre: Classical
Quality: FLAC 16/24 Bit (96 KHz / tracks+booklet)
Total Time: 61:33 min
Total Size: 220 MB / 1 GB
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Tracklist:

1. No. 1. The Waldsee Postcard
2. No. 2. The Siege
3. No. 3. The Last Letter
4. No. 1. Farewell
5. No. 2. Moonlit Heath
6. No. 3. Carpenter's Son
7. No. 4. On the Idle Hill of Summer
8. No. 5. White in the Moon
9. No. 6. As Through the Wild Green Hills of Wyre
10. Elegy for Our Time


These orchestral songs by the English composer Michael Csányi-Wills (b. 1975) all deal with the subject of loss. In Three Songs – Budapest, 1944 Csányi-Wills uses documentation from his own family history to shadow the fate of Hungary’s Jews under the Nazis. Mortality is an omnipresent theme in A. E. Housman’s Shropshire Lad poems. And Elegy for Our Time sets an anguished lament by Jessica d’Este, sparked by the death of her granddaughter in a car crash. Csányi-Wills responds to the stimulus of these dark texts with music that is hauntingly lyrical and elegiac.

Ilona Domnich, soprano
Nicky Spence, tenor
Jacques Imbrailo, baritone
Chris McKay, horn
Londamis Ensemble
Mark Eager, conductor