Thomas Verity, Michael Csányi-Wills – Echoes Across Borders (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 01:05:47 minutes | 597 MB | Genre: Classical
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Our new album ‘Echoes Across Borders’ is brought to you by principal clarinettist of the Welsh National Opera Thomas Verity and British-Hungarian pianist and composer Michael Csányi-Wills. This album takes as its jumping-off point Polish composer Mieczysław Weinberg’s Clarinet Sonata. Its resonances are then answered in Csányi-Wills’s brand new Clarinet Sonata. References to Jewish themes emergent in both works take centre stage in Michael’s Variations on a Ukrainian Theme, which takes as its source material a recording of a song by a 19-year-old concentration camp prisoner from 1945 – the same year that Weinberg wrote his Sonata. Finally, we come full circle but heard afresh, with a cross-genre realisation of Weinberg’s Rhapsody on Moldavian Themes by a contemporary klezmer band.
Tracklist:
01. Thomas Verity & Michael Csányi-Wills – Weinberg: Clarinet Sonata, Op. 28: I. Allegro (06:00)
02. Thomas Verity & Michael Csányi-Wills – Weinberg: Clarinet Sonata, Op. 28: II. Allegretto (07:17)
03. Thomas Verity & Michael Csányi-Wills – Weinberg: Clarinet Sonata, Op. 28: III. Adagio (06:57)
04. Thomas Verity & Michael Csányi-Wills – Csányi-Wills: Clarinet Sonata: I. Andantino (07:36)
05. Thomas Verity & Michael Csányi-Wills – Csányi-Wills: Clarinet Sonata: II. In a Klezmer Style (06:01)
06. Thomas Verity & Michael Csányi-Wills – Csányi-Wills: Clarinet Sonata: III. Andante Giocoso (05:55)
07. Thomas Verity & Michael Csányi-Wills – Csányi-Wills: Variations for Bass Clarinet & Piano on a Ukrainian Theme (14:59)
08. Thomas Verity & Michael Csányi-Wills – Weinberg: Rhapsody on Moldavian Themes, Op. 47 (Arr. for Ensemble by Michael Csányi-Wills) (11:01)