Eugene Goossens - Symphony No.2, Concertino, Etc
Eugene Goossens - Symphony No.2, Concertino, Etc
2007 | Classical | FLAC, Separate Files | No Cue, No Log, No Scans | 236mb
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Symphony No.2
Concertino for strings
Fantasy for winds
Sydney Symphony Orchestra - Vernon Handley
On this disc, the Symphony No 2 is the anchor. It was written in Maine, Seattle, New York and Cincinnati. Here it gets its first commercial recording albeit from a concert performance. Not that that factor dilutes the obvious technical and artistic strengths of this musical event - quite the opposite in fact - a real sense of occasion is conveyed. The recording is complete with applause. The audience is otherwise unobtrusive.
The artists project Goossens’ own brand of brooding and astringent lyricism with great power. The work does however need repeated hearings. The language is slightly more oblique than the franker heroics of Symphony No 1 (1940) from which it is separated by only five years. Its darkness reflects the war years as the composer seems to admit in his programme note. Occasionally Nielsen, Bax and even Rawsthorne are suggested but these are passing impressions. Sample the start of the symphony: a sinuous bassoon theme climbing out of subterranean depths. Aspiring, straining, Scriabinesque trumpet calls are a feature of the second movement at 6.40. The folk song The Turtle Dove casts its spell over the slow movement. The more Goossens you listen to the more is his voice revealed as distinctive and strongly atmospheric. There are many beautiful moments here. This symphony was first performed by the BBC Symphony Orchestra/composer (People’s Palace, London, 2.11.1946).
The Concertino for strings is propulsive, lively and buoyant. It began life in 1928 when it was scored for string octet. You may well have heard it broadcast on the BBC some years ago or more recently on a Chandos CD. The Fantasy (1924) is, by turns, Russian-exotic, folksy and Grainger-like. It is the "through a glass darkly" folk-song element which, for me, marks out Goossens’ music so pungently. There is something here of Frank Bridge’s There is a Willow.
1 Symphony 2, Op 62_ I Adagio - Vivace ma non troppo
2 Symphony 2, Op 62_ II Andante tranquillo
3 Symphony 2, Op 62_ III Giocoso (Interlude)
4 Symphony 2, Op 62_ IV Andante - Allegro con spirito
5 Concertino for double string orchestra, Op 47_ Allegro moderato - Andante tranquillo, ma con moto - Allegro moderato
6 Fantasy for 9 wind instruments, Op 36_ Moderato - Allegro moderato - Andante - Allegro moderato
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