Walker - Brian: Symphonies No 6, 28, 29 & 31 (2015)
Walker - Brian: Symphonies No 6, 28, 29 & 31 (2015)
EAC Rip | Flac (Tracks + cue + log) | 327 MB | MP3 320Kbps CBR | 162 MB | 1 CD | Full Scans
Genre: Classical | Label: Naxos | Catalog Number: 8573408
EAC Rip | Flac (Tracks + cue + log) | 327 MB | MP3 320Kbps CBR | 162 MB | 1 CD | Full Scans
Genre: Classical | Label: Naxos | Catalog Number: 8573408
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.
Composer: Havergal Brian
Conductor: Alexander Walker
Orchestra/Ensemble: New Russia State Symphony Orchestra
Reviews: Brian’s Sixth Symphony, subtitled “Sinfonia Tragica,” makes an ideal introduction to his music. It’s full of evocative sounds and unusually (for him) arresting thematic ideas, and its single movement takes less than twenty minutes. The last few minutes are a Mahlerian phantasmagoria of march and dance tunes not unlike the wild outburst in the development section of the first movement of the German composer’s Third Symphony, but the final bars are hauntingly elegiac. Very well recorded once before for Lyrita, this newcomer is also quite well done, and has enough differences in tone and texture to justify duplication.
Symphonies Nos. 28 and 29 both date from 1967, and both have four movements that play without pause, more or less. No. 28 is only fourteen minutes long in total. Late Brian is an acquired taste, largely because of the music’s relentlessly contrapuntal textures, heavy orchestration with lots of low brass and percussion, and lack of simple repetition to permit listeners to get their bearings. Indeed, these pieces, and the brief, single-movement No. 31 for that matter, sound as though Brian simply chopped off hunks of music from some larger overall blob of material. And yet, the opening of No. 28 has an innocent simplicity of tone and texture that the composer never lost, and all of this music sounds like no one else. That is why it retains its peculiar fascination. It may not be “easy” or “friendly,” but it is distinctive, and the work of a strong musical personality with a definite message.
As with No. 6, the performances under Alexander Walker sound remarkably assured given the unfamiliarity of the material, and they are very well recorded. The Havergal Brian Society and Mr. Godfrey Berry underwrote this production, and they definitely got their money’s worth.
Tracklisting:
Symphony No. 6, "Sinfonia tragica"
1. Symphony No. 6, "Sinfonia tragica" 00:19:53
Symphony No. 28 in C Minor
2. I. Moderato - 00:02:58
3. II. Grazioso e leggiero - 00:03:28
4. III. Andante espressivo - 00:03:45
5. IV. Allegro con brio 00:03:49
Symphony No. 29 in E-Flat Major
6. I. Adagio - Allegro - 00:09:00
7. II. Lento cantabile sempre - 00:04:22
8. III. Allegretto grazioso - 00:04:13
9. IV. Adagio - Allegro molto - Adagio 00:05:27
Symphony No. 31
10. Symphony No. 31 00:12:56
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New Russia State Symphony Orchestra, Alexander Walker / Brian: Symphonies #6, 28, 29 & 31
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