℗ 2016 Toccata Classics
| Released | 2016 |
| Duration | 1h 01m 40s |
| Record Label | Toccata Classics |
| Catalogue No. | TOCC0329 |
| Genre | Classical (Vocal) |
Michael Csányi-Wills: Songs with Orchestra
Londamis Ensemble, Mark Eager
Available in 96 kHz / 24-bit AIFF, FLAC high resolution audio formats
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Three Songs: Budapest, 1944
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1.1
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No. 1. The Waldsee Postcard
Michael Csányi-Wills; Ilona Domnich; Londamis Ensemble; Mark Eager |
3:19 | |||
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1.2
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No. 2. The Siege
Michael Csányi-Wills; Ilona Domnich; Londamis Ensemble; Mark Eager |
5:20 | |||
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1.3
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No. 3. The Last Letter
Michael Csányi-Wills; Ilona Domnich; Londamis Ensemble; Mark Eager |
7:27 | |||
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6 A.E. Housman Songs
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1.4
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No. 1. Farewell
Michael Csányi-Wills; Jacques Imbrailo; Londamis Ensemble; Mark Eager |
6:16 | |||
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1.5
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No. 2. Moonlit Heath
Michael Csányi-Wills; Jacques Imbrailo; Londamis Ensemble; Mark Eager |
7:38 | |||
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1.6
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No. 3. Carpenter's Son
Michael Csányi-Wills; Jacques Imbrailo; Londamis Ensemble; Mark Eager |
6:00 | |||
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1.7
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No. 4. On the Idle Hill of Summer
Michael Csányi-Wills; Nicky Spence; Chris McKay; Londamis Ensemble; Mark Eager |
5:18 | |||
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1.8
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No. 5. White in the Moon
Michael Csányi-Wills; Nicky Spence; Londamis Ensemble; Mark Eager |
7:23 | |||
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1.9
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No. 6. As Through the Wild Green Hills of Wyre
Michael Csányi-Wills; Nicky Spence; Londamis Ensemble; Mark Eager |
7:04 | |||
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1.10
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Elegy for Our Time
Michael Csányi-Wills; Ilona Domnich; Londamis Ensemble; Mark Eager |
5:55 | |||
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Digital Booklet
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"... (the Londamis Ensemble) gives an added richness to the composer’s often impassioned scoring. Mark Eager secures a performance of real quality from them ... the recording places the voices slightly forward in a resonant balance ... a recording of real value which should appeal not only to those who like Housman and are interested in settings of his poetry, but anyone who wants to encounter modern music which makes an immediate emotional connection to the listener."
- MusicWeb International
These orchestral songs by English composer Michael Csányi-Wills are all first recordings and all deal with the theme of loss. In Three Songs: Budapest, 1944 he 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, while 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. Soprano Ilona Domnich, tenor Nicky Spence and baritone Jacques Imbrailo join the Londamis Ensemble under Mark Eager on this unique album.
96 kHz / 24-bit PCM – Toccata Classics Studio Masters
Recorded on 4–5 August 2015 in St Augustine’s Church, Highbury, London Engineer: Rupert Coulson Producer: Sahana Gero Assistant to Michael Csányi-Wills: Mike Ladouceur Booklet text: Michael Csányi-Wills Cover design: David M. Baker Design and layout: Paul Brooks Executive producer: Martin Anderson
Recorded on 4–5 August 2015 in St Augustine’s Church, Highbury, London Engineer: Rupert Coulson Producer: Sahana Gero Assistant to Michael Csányi-Wills: Mike Ladouceur Booklet text: Michael Csányi-Wills Cover design: David M. Baker Design and layout: Paul Brooks Executive producer: Martin Anderson
| Track title | Peak (dB FS) | RMS (dB FS) | LUFS (integrated) | DR | |
Album average Range of values | -3.81 -9.37 to -1.00 | -28.11 -32.33 to -24.21 | -24.02 -28.30 to -21.10 | 15 13 to 17 | |
| 1 | No. 1. The Waldsee Postcard | -6.08 | -28.09 | -23.8 | 13 |
| 2 | No. 2. The Siege | -3.99 | -25.96 | -22.2 | 13 |
| 3 | No. 3. The Last Letter | -5.24 | -29.73 | -24.5 | 15 |
| 4 | No. 1. Farewell | -1.98 | -29.07 | -24.7 | 17 |
| 5 | No. 2. Moonlit Heath | -2.71 | -28.64 | -24.6 | 16 |
| 6 | No. 3. Carpenter's Son | -1.00 | -24.21 | -21.1 | 15 |
| 7 | No. 4. On the Idle Hill of Summer | -3.81 | -25.29 | -21.9 | 14 |
| 8 | No. 5. White in the Moon | -9.37 | -32.33 | -28.3 | 14 |
| 9 | No. 6. As Through the Wild Green Hills of Wyre | -2.92 | -30.36 | -26.6 | 15 |
| 10 | Elegy for Our Time | -1.01 | -27.46 | -22.5 | 16 |