Echoes Across Borders
Thomas Verity Clarinet
Michael Csányi-Wills Piano

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.