Havergal Brian: Symphonie Nr.2 (CD)

Havergal Brian (1876-1972)

Tony Rowe, Moscow Symphony Orchestra

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Artists:: Moscow Symphony Orchestra, Tony Rowe
Label:: Naxos
Year of recording ca.:: 1996
Item number:: 2481306
UPC/EAN:: 0747313050673
Release date:: 2.7.2007

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.