Hanson - Symphonies Nos 6 & 7 | Naxos - American Classics 8559704

Hanson - Symphonies Nos 6 & 7

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Label: Naxos - American Classics

Cat No: 8559704

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Release Date: 30th January 2012

Contents

Artists

Seattle Symphony and Chorale

Conductor

Gerard Schwarz

Works

Hanson, Howard

Lumen in Christo
Symphony no.6
Symphony no.7 'Sea Symphony'

Artists

Seattle Symphony and Chorale

Conductor

Gerard Schwarz

About

Howard Hanson’s last two symphonies offer a fitting conclusion to his compositional career. Commissioned for the 185th anniversary season of the New York Philharmonic and dedicated to Leonard Bernstein, the romantic Sixth Symphony is cast in six continuous movements pervaded by a haunting three-note motif.

The Seventh Symphony sets the poetry of Walt Whitman and reaffirms Hanson’s Sibelian inheritance whilst proudly ending his own symphonic cycle in a blaze of glory.

Lumen in Christo, which intriguingly bears the inscription “with variations on themes by Haydn and Handel”, is a choral work for women’s voices that sets sacred texts on the subject of light, ending in ethereal calm.

“I found this to be an even more satisfying release than its predecessor, and it is sure to please those who have been enjoying Schwarz’s Hanson survey.” - Fanfare on the original Delos release of Symphonies Nos 3 and 6

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