June Tabor: The Plains of Waterloo (4mins 40secs) Album: Airs and Graces Topic TSCD298
:: Track 2
Malinky: Three Ravens (6mins 14secs) Album: Three Ravens Greentrax CDTRAX233
:: Track 3
Steve Reich / Kronos Quartet: Different Trains - movement three "After the War" (10mins 20secs) Album: Different Trains Elektra / nonesuch 7559791762
BACKGROUND
Three pieces about the aftermath of battles / war. The first an unnaccompanied traditional song, about The Battle of Waterloo -- followed by a beautiful, violin-led arrangement of another folk song, Three Ravens, which is told from a raven's point of view! Again the woman bears the worst of it. This nicely links into the strings of "different trains" a bitter/sweet yet optomistic piece of music about the end of the Jewish holocaust, showing that there can always be hope.
COMMENTS
Peter Coughlin I am your no.1 fan!!!!!! Tue Apr 26 09:31:49 2005