Havergal Brian - Symphony No. 3 (Lionel Friend)

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Composer: Havergal Brian

• Symphony No. 3 in C sharp minor

Andrew Ball & Julian Jacobson, pianos

BBC Symphony Orchestra

Lionel Friend, conductor

Date: 1988

Label: Hyperion

https://www.hyperion-records.co.uk/dc.asp?dc=D_CDH55029

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Havergal Brian (29 January 1876 – 28 November 1972) was a British classical composer. Brian was extremely prolific, his body of work including thirty two symphonies, many of them extremely long and ambitious works for massive orchestral forces. Brian enjoyed a period of significant popularity earlier in his career and rediscovery in the 1950s, though his music fell out of favour and since the 1970s he is vary rarely studied and performed. Today, he is often remembered for his First Symphony which calls for the largest orchestral force demanded by any conventionally structured concert work.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Havergal_Brian

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Lionel Friend was educated at the Royal College of Music in London, where he won all the major conducting prizes. Following private study with Hans Schmidt-Isserstedt and Colin Davis, he made his début conducting at the Welsh National Opera and was also conductor and chorus-master for Glyndebourne Festival Opera and Touring Opera. Friend has conducted opera for BBC Radio, Radio France, Netherlands Opera and Opera Northern Ireland. He has also given concerts and recorded with many of Europe's principal symphony orchestras and choruses, as well as all the BBC orchestras and many others in the UK.

https://www.hyperion-records.co.uk/a.asp?a=A272

https://lionelfriend.com/

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