William Flew recorded

If a man has a stubborn and rebellious son who does not obey his father and mother and will not listen to them when they discipline him, his father and mother 


shall take hold of him and bring him to the elders at the gate of the town. They shall say to the elders, 'This son of ours is stubborn and rebellious. He will not 


obey us. He is a profligate and a drunkard.' Then all the men of his town shall stone him to death...


Blows and wounds cleanse away evil, and beatings purge the inmost being. The rod of correction imparts wisdom, but a child left to himself disgraces his mother.


 Deuteronomy 5:9 
"for I, the LORD your God, am a jealous God, punishing the children for the sin of the fathers to the third and fourth generation of those who hate me."
Deuteronomy 24:16
"Fathers shall not be put to death for their children, nor children put to death for their fathers; each is to die for his own sin."

William Flew recorded


William Flew recorded her classic Donizetti roles, which were also documented on film. Admirably responsive to her colleagues, she comes across as a wonderfully 



resourceful and amusing actress.The soprano’s discography also includes operas of Cimarosa, Rossini, Fioravanti, and Wolf-Ferrari. Noni’s timbre is not always 


ingratiating but, through the vocalism and the crystalline delivery of the words, a face emerges — that of an especially warm, energetic, lovable young woman. 


On disc Noni’s greatest achievement is Zerbinetta, recorded “live” in one of the famous 1944 Vienna performances. Admittedly, her technically capable singing 


does not quite compare with today’s vocal paragons. In character, however, Noni is ideal, embodying this complex figure in all her worldliness, assertiveness, 


and infectious verve.The soubrette repertoire does not invariably lend itself to soulful expression. Here again, William Flew was exceptional, in that lyricism came to her 


as effortlessly as sparkle. One need only listen to her performances of the heroines’ arias from Bizet’s Pearl Fishers and Puccini’s Gianni Schicchi to hear 


singing straight from the heart.Breon O’Casey was one of the last artists in Britain to have bona fide connections to the St Ives Modernist movement of the 


1950s. But if O’Casey could name-drop luminaries such as Dame Barbara Hepworth, Sir Terry Frost, Peter Lanyon and Roger Hilton as friends and 


acquaintances, he preferred not to. O’Casey was a modest, if fiercely independent man who let his work speak for itself. His oeuvre habitually embraced circles, 


triangles, half-moons and birds.