Composer of the Week - Franz Waxman - Epitaphs and Impressions

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).