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BRIAN JENISOVA DOLEZAL MIKULAS LENARD - GOTHIC SYMPHONY CD

BRIAN JENISOVA DOLEZAL MIKULAS LENARD - GOTHIC SYMPHONY CD

ILS162.17

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Artist:

BRIAN / JENISOVA / DOLEZAL / MIKULAS / LENARD

Title:

GOTHIC SYMPHONY

Genre:

CLASSICAL

SKU:

747313241828

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4 - 8 Business Days

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SKU/Barcode: 747313241828

Havergal Brian's 'Gothic' Symphony is the biggest, grandest, and most monumental symphony ever written. Composed in two gargantuan parts of three huge movements each, the Gothic's opening instrumental movements get progressively wilder and his closing choral orchestral setting of the Te Deum gets progressively weirder. Draped in gaudy colors and gigantic sonorities and driven by the mighty rhythms of an enormously enlarged orchestra, the Gothic strives to rise above its overwhelmingly bombastic rhetoric, but it inevitably collapses into incoherent banality and finally into unintelligible muttering. Ultimately, Brian's 'Gothic' Symphony is so vast as to be incomprehensible and so long as to be unendurable. But aside from bootlegs, there was no way for listeners to hear Brian's Gothic and find out for themselves until the release of this 1989 studio recording with Ondrej Lenard, the Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra, and a host of Slovak choirs. It is a magnificent achievement in every way but one: Brian's music is awful. The opening Allegro assai is a mixture of dramatic sonata form with undigested chunks of folk song. The following Lento espressivo e solenne is a massive funeral march in gauche 5/4 time. The following Vivace is an eccentric Scherzo that becomes an out of control Rondo. But while the a cappella opening of the Te Deum is as close as Brian ever got to inspiration, and all Lenard's hosts sing splendidly, the movement spends itself rambling and mumbling. And while the colossal 'Judex' outdoes even Berlioz's Te Deum in its stupendous waves of sound, the music itself is so simple-minded as to be stupefying. And while the closing 'Te ergo' is as cogent as it is ever likely to get, it still sounds like music with delirium tremens and delusions of grandeur. Naxos' sound is better than the music.

1. I. Allegro Assai
2. I. Allegro Assai
3. I. Allegro Assai
4. I. Allegro Assai
5. Ii. Lento Espressivo E Solenne
6. Ii. Lento Espressivo E Solenne
7. Ii. Lento Espressivo E Solenne
8. Iii. Vivace
9. Iii. Vivace
10. Iii. Vivace
11. Iii. Vivace
12. Iii. Vivace
13. Iii. Vivace
14. Iii. Vivace
15. Iv. Te Deum Laudamus: Allegro Moderato
16. Iv. Te Deum Laudamus: Allegro Moderato
17. Iv. Te Deum Laudamus: Allegro Moderato
18. Iv. Te Deum Laudamus: Allegro Moderato
19. Iv. Te Deum Laudamus: Allegro Moderato
20. Iv. Te Deum Laudamus: Allegro Moderato
21. Iv. Te Deum Laudamus: Allegro Moderato
22. Iv. Te Deum Laudamus: Allegro Moderato
23. Iv. Te Deum Laudamus: Allegro Moderato
24. Iv. Te Deum Laudamus: Allegro Moderato
25. Iv. Te Deum Laudamus: Allegro Moderato
26. V. Judex: Adagio Molto Solenne E Religioso
27. V. Judex: Adagio Molto Solenne E Religioso
28. V. Judex: Adagio Molto Solenne E Religioso
29. V. Judex: Adagio Molto Solenne E Religioso
30. V. Judex: Adagio Molto Solenne E Religioso
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