"Elegies is Frederica von Stades tribute to a father she never knew. Charles von Stade wrote many letters to his young wife, pregnant with their first child, before he was killed in action in World War II. The singer had long desired to turn some of the sentiments her father expressed into a song cycle, and eventually the letters were fashioned into poems by Kim Vaeth. Richard Danielpour was commissioned to compose the music in 1997. The five songs form a sort of a conversation across the gulf of time between father and daughter. The text alludes to their separation, longing for each other, and their eventual reconciliation on the spiritual plane". (...) Danielpours music is occasionally morose, at times angry, and seems to use Samuel Barber as a stylistic starting point". (ClassicsToday). Deze CD is Nr 15 van de 18-CD-set "Frederica von Stade : The Complete Columbia Recital Albums", CDR-nummer DAX6663.
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