From Cesky Rozhlas/Radio Praha: It is quite possible that you will have heard Hans Krasa’s famous children’s opera Brundibar, but it is less likely that you will have heard it performed in English. Naxos has now come out with a first English language recording. We recently featured music by Hans Krasa on Encore, and as we mentioned then, he is, tragically, best known today not for his enormous musical gifts, but for the fact that, like many gifted Czech and German Jewish musicians, he was transported during the German occupation to the ghetto in Terezin (Theresienstadt) , and later to
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