Dohnanyi - Symphony No.2, Two Songs | Naxos 8573008

Dohnanyi - Symphony No.2, Two Songs

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Label: Naxos

Cat No: 8573008

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Release Date: 2nd June 2014

Contents

Works

Dohnanyi, Erno

Songs (3), op.22
» no.1 Gott (God)
» no.2 Sonnensehnsucht (Longing for the Sun)
Symphony no.2 in E major, op.40

Artists

Evan Thomas Jones (baritone)
Florida State University Symphony Orchestra

Conductor

Alexander Jimenez

Works

Dohnanyi, Erno

Songs (3), op.22
» no.1 Gott (God)
» no.2 Sonnensehnsucht (Longing for the Sun)
Symphony no.2 in E major, op.40

Artists

Evan Thomas Jones (baritone)
Florida State University Symphony Orchestra

Conductor

Alexander Jimenez

About

Dohnányi’s powerful Symphony No.2 was composed toward the end of the Second World War but its large canvas reflects not so much his wartime experience as his own artistic credo as a Romantic composer.

Of the symphony and its philosophy he wrote: “The goal is the end of the glorious fight. The goal is death; life is a struggle”, and in it he crafted a passionate monument to the Romanticism he espoused, heard here in its final revised version.

The two songs for baritone and orchestra have been very rarely heard, and were revived by Alexander Jiménez with the Florida State University Symphony Orchestra in 2013.

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