A London Symphony

Album by Ralph Vaughan Williams & London Symphony Orchestra & André Previn

A London Symphony (Symphony No. 2) is a symphony by English composer Ralph Vaughan Williams, completed and first performed in 1914. The work combines late-Romantic orchestral textures with pastoral and urban motifs, employing vivid orchestration and folk-influenced harmony to evoke scenes of London, and it occupies an important place in Vaughan Williams's early orchestral output and in the development of 20th-century British symphonic music.
First released: 16th November 2018

Tracklist

  1. 1.
    Symphony no. 2, IRV. 41 “A London Symphony”: I. Lento – Allegro resoluto
    15:02
  2. 2.
    Symphony no. 2, IRV. 41 “A London Symphony”: II. Lento
    10:39
  3. 3.
    Symphony no. 2, IRV. 41 “A London Symphony”: III. Scherzo – Nocturne
    7:19
  4. 4.
    Symphony no. 2, IRV. 41 “A London Symphony”: IV. Andante con moto – Maestoso alla marcia – Lento – Epilogue
    13:25

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