Havergal Brian - Symphonies Nos 6, 28, 29 & 31 | Naxos 8573408

Havergal Brian - Symphonies Nos 6, 28, 29 & 31

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Label: Naxos

Cat No: 8573408

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Genre: Orchestral

Release Date: 30th March 2015

Contents

Artists

New Russia State Symphony Orchestra

Conductor

Alexander Walker

Works

Brian, Havergal

Symphony no.6 'Sinfonia Tragica'
Symphony no.28 in C minor
Symphony no.29 in E flat major
Symphony no.31

Artists

New Russia State Symphony Orchestra

Conductor

Alexander Walker

About

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.

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