Tovey - Symphony in D | Toccata Classics TOCC0033

Tovey - Symphony in D

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Label: Toccata Classics

Cat No: TOCC0033

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Genre: Orchestral

Release Date: 6th February 2006

Contents

Artists

Malmo Opera Orchestra

Conductor

George Vass

Works

Tovey, Donald

Symphony in D major, op.32
The Bride of Dionysus: Prelude

Artists

Malmo Opera Orchestra

Conductor

George Vass

About

Donald Francis Tovey (1875–1940) has long been known as one of the finest writers on music in English – but he saw himself primarily as a composer. His powerful and ambitious Symphony, written in 1913, has its stylistic roots in Brahms and Bruckner, and more distantly in Schumann, but Tovey was also open to contemporary developments: the harmonic procedures occasionally invoke Reger, the adventurous use of orchestral colour suggests Mahler and Nielsen and the scale – it is almost an hour in length – casts the work as a mighty cousin to Elgar’s two symphonies, finished not long before. This is its first recording since Tovey himself conducted a BBC broadcast performance in 1937. The disc opens with the first recording of the gentle, noble Prelude to Tovey’s only opera, The Bride of Dionysus, begun in 1907 and completed in 1918.

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