Vaughan Williams - Symphony No.4 / Benjamin - Symphony
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Label: Barbirolli Society
Cat No: SJB1064
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 1
Genre: Orchestral
Release Date: 12th November 2012
Contents
Artists
BBC Symphony OrchestraHalle Orchestra
Conductor
John BarbirolliWorks
SymphonySymphony no.4 in F minor
Artists
BBC Symphony OrchestraHalle Orchestra
Conductor
John BarbirolliAbout
Earlier issues from the Barbirolli Society have documented the conductor’s deep empathy with Vaughan Williams’s music. Barbirolli’s performance of the Fourth Symphony is, overall, almost five-and-a-half minutes longer than the composer’s own, yet it is no less overwhelmingly powerful, if less concentrated in its fury. Barbirolli digs deep into this work, and the result is a performance that must have delighted the composer, for existing correspondence between the two men around that time acknowledges the composer’s heartfelt thanks to the conductor in programming all six (then) extant symphonies in the first Hallé season in the new Free Trade Hall, marking Vaughan Williams’s 80th birthday in 1952.
Arthur Benjamin’s Symphony is a fine work, deeply serious and cogently argued, and there is no doubt that, despite the inevitable shortcomings in broadcast sound of well over 60 years ago, Barbirolli gives a staggeringly impressive and committed premiere of the music.
Contents:
- Benjamin: Symphony
Hallé Orchestra
Broadcast: 30 June 1948
- Vaughan Williams: Symphony No.4 in F minor
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Broadcast: 1950
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