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Karl Jenkins'
Cantata Memoria -
heard by
GERALD FENECH

'... a deeply moving experience ...'

Karl Jenkins: Cantata Memoria - For the Children. © 2016 Karl Jenkins / Deutsche Grammophon GmbH

To commemorate the half century since the Aberfan mining disaster in Wales where more than 140 children and adults lost their lives, Karl Jenkins has come up with a powerful statement in the form of a cantata titled 'For the Children'.

It will suffice to say that the date of 21 October 1966 will forever remain a memory when a mountain of coal collapsed onto the mining village of Aberfan in South Wales. This incredible peacetime disaster cost the lives of 116 children and 18 adults since the coal fell directly on a school...

Copyright © 21 January 2017 Gerald Fenech,
Gzira, Malta

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KARL JENKINS: CANTATA MEMORIA - FOR THE CHILDREN

WALES

BRYN TERFEL

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DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON

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