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BRIAN: Symphonies Nos. 20 and 25

Composer(s):Brian, Havergal
Artist(s) Penny, Andrew, Conductor • Ukraine National Symphony Orchestra
Period(s) 20th Century
Genre Classical Music
Category Orchestral
Catalogue 8.223731
Label Marco Polo
Quality   320kbps
Album Price
 
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USD 9.99
 

 

   



Excellent and entertaining symphonies
Review By jleonard,August 2010

Havergal Brian (1876-1972) is famous for having written 32 Symphonies, the majority written after his 70th birthday. This would be merely a footnote in musical history were it not for the fact that these 32 symphonies are all of a very high standard and all are well worth listening to.

Brian began writing symphonies in the 1920s and his Gothic Symphony (No.1) is the largest symphony ever written (for length and forces employed). His symphonies after this, however, quickly grew shorter, and the symphonies he was writing on the 1960s (of which Nos 20 and 25 are examples) are quite short and even haydnesque. Brian’s music, like Haydn’s, is lively, inventive and full of humour, with unexpected twists and turns, and surprising contrasts and new directions which shed a different more....


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