Corinne Winters * Esther [New CD] 8/18/09 Arc's Blue Flame

Arc's Blue Flame

Häämarssi (Wedding March)

and razor-sharp pop instincts - wrapping knotty ideas into songs that feel both meticulously constructed and joyfully unhinged

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

Corinne Winters * Esther [New CD] 8/18/09 Arc's Blue FlameThe 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