Brian: Symphonies Nos. 6, 28, 29 & 31 - New Russia State Symphony, A. Walker

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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 Artist details

Brian, Havergal

 Symphony No. 6, "Sinfonia tragica"

 Symphony No. 28 in C Minor

 Symphony No. 29 in E-Flat Major

 Symphony No. 31

Total Playing Time: 01:09:51