Following their successful cycle of Prokofiev's symphonies on the Onyx label, Kirill Karabits and the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra perform two works by another great symphonist of the modern era, William Walton. The Symphony No. 1 in B flat minor (1932-35) and the Symphony No. 2 (1959-60) were held in high esteem by British critics and anglophiles around the world, even though they were ignored by partisans of the avant-garde, which dismissed symphonic writing as an artifact of the past. Yet in the second decade of the ...
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Following their successful cycle of Prokofiev's symphonies on the Onyx label, Kirill Karabits and the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra perform two works by another great symphonist of the modern era, William Walton. The Symphony No. 1 in B flat minor (1932-35) and the Symphony No. 2 (1959-60) were held in high esteem by British critics and anglophiles around the world, even though they were ignored by partisans of the avant-garde, which dismissed symphonic writing as an artifact of the past. Yet in the second decade of the 21st century, audiences can better appreciate the symphonies of the 20th century, of which Walton's pair may be regarded as fairly representative in form and style. A characteristic seriousness sustains the First, and Walton's muscular counterpoint and rhythmic propulsion resist the peculiar British tendency toward pastoral reveries; indeed, Walton's music is quite aggressive and incisive, and his First is similar to the contemporaneous Symphony No. 4 of Vaughan Williams, which shares...
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