Brian: Symphonies Nos 6, 28, 29 & 31
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HAVERGAL BRIAN
Brian: Symphonies Nos 6, 28, 29 & 31
New Russia State Symphony Orchestra, Alexander Walker
[ Naxos / CD ]
Release Date: Monday 1 June 2015
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Havergal Brian's extraordinary late creativity is almost unparalleled in musical history. Between the completion of Symphony No. 6 in 1948 and the end of his compositional life two decades later he wrote 26 symphonies. No. 6 marks a crucial point in his adoption of more concise forms and economy of expression in its single-movement span, a process taken even further in the brief but free polyphonic fantasia of No. 31. In Symphonies Nos. 28 and 29 Brian turned to the classical four-movement model but one which is wholly and idiosyncratically re-imagined. The intensity and even savagery of No. 28 is balanced by No. 29, Brian's most lyrical late work.
"Assisted by having recorded Brian's music previously the partnership between conductor Alexander Walker and the New Russia State Symphony Orchestra is a fruitful one. My expectations of high performance quality were fully met by these gripping accounts. Walker achieves extraordinarily intense playing that illuminates this music to its best advantage. There's excellent sound quality with the disc being especially well balanced and with good clarity. This Naxos release is a prime recommendation, de rigueur for all Brian admirers and lovers of British music alike." (Recording of the Month MusicWeb May 2015)
Tracks:
Symphony No. 6 'Sinfonia Tragica'
Symphony No. 28
Symphony No. 29
Symphony No. 31
