NAXOS RICHARD DANIELPOUR SONGS OF SOLITUDE & WAR SONGS 8559792 | 636943979228 1 CD | SRP: US $12.99 CA $12.99 COMPOSER: Richard Danielpour ARTIST: Thomas Hampson (baritone) • Nashville Symphony • Giancarlo Guerrero (conductor) TRACK LIST: Songs of Solitude 01. I. Prologue 02. II. Blood and the Moon 03. III. Drinking Song 04. IV. These Are the Clouds 05. V. The Second Coming 06. VI. Epilogue War Songs 07. No. 1, Hush’d Be the Camps To-day 08. No. 2, Look Down, Fair Moon 09. No. 3, Reconciliation 10. No. 4, Year That Trembled and Reel’d Beneath Me 11. No. 5, Come Up from the Fields Father 12. Toward the Splendid City • 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 its 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. DISTRIBUTED BY RELEASE DATE: 10/14/16 NAXOS OF AMERICA | NAXOS OF CANADA | NEW RELEASE 12