Epitaphs and Impressions
Donald Macleod contrasts two of Waxman's showpieces for orchestra with The Song of Terezin, a sombre late song cycle.
Contrasting two colourful showpieces for orchestra with the sombre late song-cycle Song of Terezin, Waxman's setting of poems by children interned in the Terezin ghetto in Czechoslovakia.
Goyana: La Marquesa de Santa Cruz
Cristina Ortiz (piano)
Orquestra Simfonica de Barcelona I Nacional de Catalunya
Laurence Foster (conductor)
The Ride to Dubno (Taras Bulba)
MGM Studio Orchestra
Franz Waxman (conductor)
The Song of Terezin
Della Jones (mezzo-soprano)
Berlin Symphony Orchestra
Lawrence Foster (conductor).
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- Fri 23 May 200812:00BBC Radio 3
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