![]() ![]() Interestingly this was the last work he completed before setting to work on his opera Margaret Garner to a libretto by another Nobel Prize Winner, Toni Morrison. Work proceeded quickly and the score was finished in January 2002. Hampson was very helpful with a lot of issues concerning Songs of Solitude, including the ordering of the poems. “The plainness of the Copland House inspired a new sense of economy and sparseness in my own composition, as did Yeats’ poetry”, he writes in the liner-notes. He soon realized that many of the poems included images of war and decided that after the Requiem, which in a way anticipated the deaths at World Trade Center, he would write another work related to the horrible events of 9/11. ![]() Having finished the edit, which took around a week, he returned to the poems of Yeats which he had brought with him as suitable for the Hampson cycle. His aim was to edit his recently finished Requiem and write a new work for Thomas Hampson and The Philadelphia Orchestra. The day before 11 September 2001 Danielpour had arrived at the Copland House in Peekskill, N.Y., since 1998 a retreat for composers. This cycle was written in response to the events of 9/11 and it draws on poems by Nobel Prize winner W. 3) from Songs of Solitude is jazzy and rhythmically alert. The Beatles have been an inspiration, he says somewhere. The music on the present disc is basically tonal but spiced with seasoning from various sources: some Stravinsky, a drop of Copland, a sprinkle of Bernstein and various influences from latter-day jazz and popular music. Like many of his American composer colleagues Richard Danielpour shunned the serial technique he had espoused at the beginning of his career. ![]() Nashville, USA, 12-14 March 2015, 21 November 2015 (Splendid City) live, Laura Turner Concert Hall, Schermerhorn Symphony Center, The break in the timbre is preserved even where the fate is accused and the bloody course of humanity is confronted with astonishing unbelief.Support us financially by purchasing this from His ability to cast the word into sensual and meaningful sound is still exemplary. His autumn-toned luxurious baritone matches perfectly with the mostly transparently orchestrated songs. “Thomas Hampson, the singer of the premiere of the 22nd October 2004 in Philadelphia, is also the ideal artist in 2015 to meet the poetic and content of this cycle in all facets. one couldn’t have hoped for a better performance. Much of the vocal writing was scored for the baritone’s highest register, and Hampson sang this music with a vaporous, transparent falsetto.” Baritone soloist Thomas Hampson performed both of these orchestral song cycles with deep feeling and a welcome degree of high drama. Also on the bill was Danielpour’s Songs of Solitude, written a decade ago to honor the victims of the 9/11 terrorist attacks. featured the world premiere of Danielpour’s War Songs, which marks the 150th anniversary of the Civil War’s end this year. “The Nashville Symphony Orchestra immersed itself in the music of Richard Danielpour. Hampson’s achievement is even more impressive given that the recordings were made in concert.” At 60, his voice sounds as fresh as ever, and the baritone’s musical intelligence and literary sensitivity make even the less successful of these songs worthy of study. “Both of these cycles were written for Thomas Hampson, who sings them magnificently. Danielpour in response to the 9/11 attacks, in his home city of New York. War Songs, a song cycle with texts by Walt Whitman, was commissioned by the Nashville Symphony in commemoration of the 150th anniversary of the end of the Civil War. Thomas Hampson is the baritone soloist on a new recording, featuring Richard Danielpour’s Songs of Solitude and War Songs, along with the orchestral work Toward the Splendid City. ![]()
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