Humperdinck/ Fredrick/ Woods - Visions of Childhood Fulfilled By AEC passion and entrancing melodies that

passion and entrancing melodies that set this iconic opera apart

although his music was rooted in swing and he was a noted performer of ballads

This compilation features ten tracks from the Meta Records catalog

Through live electronics

Humperdinck/ Fredrick/ Woods - Visions of Childhood Fulfilled By AEC passion and entrancing melodies thatKenneth Woods writes: "Given that this programme was to be an exploration of childhood, the obvious place to start is with birth. Richard Wagner wrote his Siegfried Idyll as a birthday present for his wife, Cosima, just after the birth of their son, Siegfried. Nowhere else in music is there so tender an evocation of those fragile, precious and fraught first days and weeks of life. Engelbert Humperdinck's great children's opera, Hnsel und Gretel, a