Faber Music · Howard Goodall - A Winter's Tale (2005/2012)

Act One takes place in a totalitarian state in the early 1950s, somewhere not unlike Soviet Ukraine or Gheorghiu-Dej’s Romania. A winter of discontent.

 

Act Two takes place 16 years later in a neighbouring, more liberal state, on the sun-parched shores of a warm sea, perhaps like Papandreou’s Greece, or Tito’s Yugoslavia. The second generation awaken a summer of love…