With this song cycle, Londoner Robb Johnson pays homage to both his grandfathers who fought and survived World War I in the trenches. The cycle is also a document of how and to what extent the First World War affected all generations of the twentieth century. Vera Coomans, Robb Johnson, Roy Bailey, Koen, Dajo and Myrdhin De Cauter, Jan De Coninck, Hendrik Braeckman, Philip Hoessen and Willy Seeuws
… are the British and Belgian performers of the cycle. With this double CD, Peace Concerts Passchendaele close their first lustrum. The purpose of these Peace Concerts is to update what happened in the First World War in West Flanders. However, even without this goal, Johnson's song cycle is a special work. (GO) _more
