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Havergal Brian

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A faery song (1)
Blake songs (2) (1)
Blake songs (5) (1)
Care-charmer sleep (1)
Choral Pieces (2) (1)
Comedy Overture 'Doctor Merryheart' (1)
Concert Overture 'For Valour' (1)
Day and night (1)
English Suite no.1 (1)
English Suite no.4 'Kindergarten' (1)
English Suite no.5 (1)
Fantastic Variations on an Old Rhyme (2)
Farewell (1)
Faust (1)
Festal Dance (2)
Festival Fanfare (2)
Gretchen songs from 'Faust' (1)
Handel arrangments (2) (1)
Herrick songs (3) (1)
If I could speak (1)
In memoriam (2)
John Dowland�s fancy (1)
John Dowland’s fancy (1)
Legend (1)
Little sleeper (1)
Miniatures (4) (1)
Overture: For Valour (1)
Psalm 23 'Rustic Scenes' (2)
Since love is dead (1)
Soliloquy upon a dead child (1)
Songs (3) for medium voice (1)
Sorrow song (1)
Symphony no.1 'Gothic' (4)
» Part 1
Symphony no.2 in E minor (2)
Symphony no.3 in C sharp minor (2)
Symphony no.4 'Das Siegeslied' (1)
Symphony no.5 'Wine of Summer' (1)
Symphony no.6 'Sinfonia Tragica' (2)
Symphony no.7 in C major (1)
Symphony no.8 in B flat minor (2)
Symphony no.9 in A minor (1)
Symphony no.10 in C minor (1)
Symphony no.11 (1)
Symphony no.12 (1)
Symphony no.13 in C major (1)
Symphony no.14 in F minor (1)
Symphony no.15 (1)
Symphony no.16 (2)
Symphony no.17 (2)
Symphony no.18 (1)
Symphony no.19 in E minor (1)
Symphony no.20 in C sharp minor (1)
Symphony no.21 in E flat major (2)
Symphony no.22 'Symphonia brevis' (3)
Symphony no.23 (1)
Symphony no.24 in D major (2)
Symphony no.25 in A minor (1)
Symphony no.26 (1)
Symphony no.27 in C minor (1)
Symphony no.28 in C minor (1)
Symphony no.29 in E flat major (1)
Symphony no.31 (1)
Symphony no.32 (1)
Take, O, take those lips away (1)
The Jolly Miller (1)
The Tigers: Symphonic Dances (6) (1)
The Tigers (1)
The Tinker's Wedding: Comedy Overture (2)
The Vision of Cleopatra: Tragic poem (orch. John Pickard) (1)
The boys and the pastille (1)
The butterfly’s waltz (1)
The lost doll (1)
The message (1)
The mountain and the squirrel (1)
The soul of steel (1)
Venus and a bobby (1)
Violin Concerto in C major (1)
What does little birdie say (1)
When I lie ill (1)
When icicles hang by the wall (1)
When the sun goes down (1)

Havergal Brian (born William Brian, 29 January 1876 – 28 November 1972) was a British classical composer.

Brian acquired a legendary status at the time of his rediscovery in the 1950s and 1960s for the many symphonies he had managed to write. By the end of his life he had completed 32, an unusually large number for any composer since Haydn or Mozart. More remarkably, he completed 14 of these symphonies in his 80s, and seven more in his early 90s.

He is also notable for his creative persistence in the face of almost total neglect during the greater part of his long life. Even now, none of his works can be said to be performed with any frequency, but few composers who have fallen into neglect after an early period of success have continued to produce so many ambitious works so long after any chance of performance would seem to have gone for good.

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Recent Brian releases

Brian - Symphonies 8, 9, 22 & 24
Brian - Symphonies 8, 9, 22 & 24

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English Choral Premieres & Rarities
English Choral Premieres & Rarities

£9.45

(Griffin)

Brian - Symphonies 3 & 17
Brian - Symphonies 3 & 17

£15.15

(Heritage)

Brian - Faust
Brian - Faust

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(Dutton - Epoch)

Brian - In memoriam, Gothic Symphony Part 1
Brian - In memoriam, Gothic Symphony Part 1

£15.15

(Heritage)

Brian - Symphonies 7 & 16, The Tinker’s Wedding Overture
Brian - Symphonies 7 & 16, The Tinker’s Wedding Overture

£12.30

(Naxos)

Brian - The Vision of Cleopatra, Fantastic Variations, Two Choral Pieces, etc.
Brian - The Vision of Cleopatra, Fantastic Variations, Two Choral Pieces, etc.

£15.15

(Dutton - Epoch)

Brian - Symphonies 8, 21 & 26
Brian - Symphonies 8, 21 & 26

£12.30

(Naxos)