Composer of the Week
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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).

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First Broadcast23 May 2008
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