Luis de Freitas Branco: Symphonie Nr.2
Symphonie Nr.2
CD
CD (Compact Disc)
Conventional CD, playable with all CD players and computer drives, but also with most SACD or multiplayers.
- +Fantasie "After reading of Guerra Junqueiro"; Artificial Paradises
- Artists: RTE National SO, Alvaro Cassuto
- Label: Naxos, DDD, 2008
- Order number: 7345745
- Release date: 16.1.2009
Luís de Freitas Branco was the towering figure in Portugese music during the first half of the 20th Century. His Second Symphony combines elements as disparate as Gregorian chant, the boisterous spirit of a Brucknerian scherzo and the influence of Franck and Debussy into a superbly integrated Romantic work. His tone poem After a reading of Guerra Junqueiro was inspired by Richard Strauss, whose opulent orchestrations it echoes. Artificial Paradises , an eerie piece inspired by De Quincy's Confessions of an Opium Eater , is regarded as Freitas Branco's masterpiece.
- Tracklisting
- Contributors
Disk 1 von 1 (CD)
- 1 Symphony No. 2 in B flat minor: I. Andante - Allegro
- 2 Symphony No. 2 in B flat minor: II. Andantino con moto
- 3 Symphony No. 2 in B flat minor: III. Allegro vivace
- 4 Symphony No. 2 in B flat minor: IV. Adagio - Allegro
- 5 Depois de uma leitura de Guerra Junqueiro (After a reading of Guerra Junqueiro)
- 6 Os paraisos artificiais (Artificial Paradises)
