Symphony no. 1 "The Gothic"
Album by Havergal Brian & Honor Sheppard & Shirley Minty & Ronald Dowd & Roger Stalman & Sir Adrian Boult & BBC Symphony Orchestra
Symphony No. 1 "The Gothic" is the first symphony by English composer Havergal Brian, completed in 1927. The sprawling choral symphony employs vast orchestral and vocal forces and blends late-Romantic harmonic language with moments of intense dissonance and complex textures, placing it as a distinctive statement within Brian's output and in early 20th-century British symphonic writing.
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Disc 1
- 1.Symphony no. 1 in D minor "The Gothic": Part 1. Allegro assai11:30
- 2.Symphony no. 1 in D minor "The Gothic": Part 1. Lento espressivo e solenne10:44
- 3.Symphony no. 1 in D minor "The Gothic": Part 1. Vivace11:49
- 4.Symphony no. 1 in D minor "The Gothic": Part 2. The Deum laudamus: Allegro moderato18:03
Disc 2
- 2.Symphony no. 1 in D minor "The Gothic": Part 2. Iudex crederis esse venturus: Adagio molto solenne e reliogioso14:16
- 3.Symphony no. 1 in D minor "The Gothic": Part 2. Te ergo, quaesumus: Moderato e molto sostenuto34:42
- 4.Havergal Brian, interviewed for the BBC by J. Behague on 1 January 19666:48
