Brian - Symphony No 2, Festival Fanfare | Naxos 8570506

Brian - Symphony No 2, Festival Fanfare

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Label: Naxos

Cat No: 8570506

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Genre: Orchestral

Release Date: 2nd July 2007

Contents

Artists

Moscow Symphony Orchestra

Conductor

Tony Rowe

Works

Brian, Havergal

Festival Fanfare
Symphony no.2 in E minor

Artists

Moscow Symphony Orchestra

Conductor

Tony Rowe

About

Orthodox in its four-movement structure but, according to the composer, ‘very unorthodox inside’, Havergal Brian’s Symphony No. 2 was originally inspired by Goethe’s play Götz von Berlichingen. 
 
In 1972, however, following the death of his beloved daughter, Brian dedicated his forty-year old Symphony to her memory. 
 
Scored for a big orchestra which calls, among other requirements, for sixteen horns, three sets of timpani, two pianos and organ, the Symphony includes a furious ostinato-scherzo, and a tragic funeral march entirely conceived in Brian’s own terms, yet unafraid to evoke echoes of Siegfried’s Funeral March from Götterdämmerung.
 
Previously released on Marco Polo 8.223790.

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