Corinne Winters * Esther [New CD] 8/18/09 Animistic Resonance

Animistic Resonance

When he arrived in Nashville

it's Celtic twilightism augmented by Susie Honeyman's keening violin as the dying sun sinks down and the river Styx flows on in the pitch black night

each entry building on the last with refreshing acrobatics

Corinne Winters * Esther [New CD] 8/18/09 Animistic ResonanceThe Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra and conductor Kirill Karabits, joined by an outstanding cast led by Corinne Winters, present the world premiere recording of Thomas de Hartmann's lost opera Esther. Often written by candlelight during the Nazi occupation of Paris, Esther was composed as de Hartmann a non Jewish Ukrainian expatriate lived through the unfolding horrors of the Holocaust. He perceived profound parallels between those events and the