Powerfully Transcendent
Cantata for the
Children of Terezin -
recommended by the late
HOWARD SMITH'... all the authority and seriousness a topic of this magnitude deserves.'
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This effectively disquieting retrospective work by Mary Anne Joyce-Walter revisits the tragic fate of Jewish youngsters caught up in ghoulish practices of 1940s Nazis. I was inescapably swept along in recollections of horror and heroism by kids subject to offences no child should ever confront.
A passing thought: Ravello's inventive and tasteful presentation / packaging merits special kudos. Melba Recordings borders on the ostentatious, though harmonia mundi and a few smaller labels are putting the mundane 'big guns' to shame...
Copyright © 9 May 2016
Estate of the late Howard Smith,
Masterton, New Zealand
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