This album features world premiere recordings of Havergal Brian's Symphonies Nos. 28 and 29.
Album & Artwork
The cover of this recording features a bronze bust of Havergal Brian by Welsh sculptor Robert Thomas, who is the dedicatee of Symphony No. 29.
Composition History
Havergal Brian's Symphony No. 6, 'Sinfonia Tragica', began as an orchestral prelude to an opera he planned on J.M. Synge's play Deirdre of the Sorrows.
Compositional Technique
Havergal Brian's Symphony No. 6, 'Sinfonia Tragica', is a crucial work marking his adoption of an allusive, impacted syntax in a purely instrumental form.
Composer Biography
For much of his creative life, Havergal Brian worked in isolation with little hope of hearing his music performed.
Composer's Artistic Vision
Havergal Brian, the composer, once claimed he wished to express the totality of his immense Gothic Symphony in a single musical gesture of a few seconds.
Composer Biography
Havergal Brian, the composer, completed 26 symphonies, four operas, and other orchestral works in the last two decades of his life, starting at age 72.
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