Danielpour: Songs in Three Languages

Hila Plitmann (soloist), Antonio Lysy (soloist), Inna Faliks (soloist), David Walther (soloist), Marcia Dickstein (soloist)

Iranshahr Orchestra, Shahāb Pāranj

Richard Danielpour has frequently collaborated with soprano Hila Plitmann, and this album contains three new works, two of which were written especially for her. The song cycles heard here are sung in three languages that play a central role in the composer's life. Songs of Love and Loss is in Farsi and sets the poetry of Rumi; Canti Della Natura, in Italian, takes up sonnets attributed to Vivaldi in The Four Seasons, while Songs of My Father is set to the English poems of Danielpour's father. Each cycle is characterized by a different instrumentation and reflects Danielpour's long admired compositional subtlety and sophistication.

Richard Danielpour (b. 1956)

Songs in Three Languages