Csanyi-Wills: Songs with Orchestra
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SKU: NX.TOCC0329

By Chris McKay, Ilona Domnich, Jacques Imbrailo, Londamis Ensemble, Mark Eager, and Nicky Spence. By Michael Csanyi-Wills. Classical. Listening CD. Published by Toccata Classics (NX.TOCC0329).

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.

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