Condition: Used
Havergal Brian - Symphonies 8 and 9 - Groves
EMI
ASD 3486
Stereo/ Quadraphonic
LP
Record is VG++
Cover has cut corner top left slight sticker wear top right ( see pic)
Side A
Havergal Brian - Symphony 8 in B Flat Minor
Side B
Havergal Brian - Symphony 9
As to Havergal Brian, you need to bear in mind he is one of the last classical composers working in the Wagnerian tradition. His music is about momentous things, about history and major events, and most of all about tragedy. His music is romantic but also modern sounding, especially in its silences and dissonances.
one of his finest, and most profound, symphonies: the 8th. For those who aren't looking for easy listening, or cookie-cutter symphonies full of time-worn and banal gestures (which describes most of what's out there) this work will be astonishing, as it was for Robert Simpson when he first encountered it.
Brian is not for everybody. He is deep, dark, rich, endlessly inventive, utterly original, and fiercely tough-minded and craggy.
As with most truly great creative works, the precise "message" often remains elusive - enigmatic - a quality that results in each work producing a different effect every time it is heard.
But an emotional, and intellectual effect will be there!
In his symphonies, Brian is never trivial, or predictable - and the emotional power of many of his works is incredible.
Brian's works have the potential to linger in the memory, and resonate in the heart for a lifetime...if one understands them.
But like Shakespeare, Goethe, and the other great authors Brian was steeped in, and influenced by, Brian's work requires concentration and "ears that can hear."
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