Category: Music

“Pagan Symphony: I. Tranquillo molto lento sostenuto” by Royal Philharmonic Orchestra & Vernon Handley

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Granville Bantock – Pagan Symphony

Continuing a mini-exploration of listening to some English symphonies.

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“Shostakovich: Symphony No.11 In G Minor, Op. 103, “The Year 1905″ – 1. The Palace Square” by Stokowski, Houston Symphony Orchestra

Dmitri Shostakovich – Symphony No. 11 In G Minor, Op. 103, “The Year 1905”

This is one of the first recordings of Shostakovich’s music I owned on CD, along with Bernstein versions of Symphonies 5, 6 and 9. I still have the CDs and still listen to all of them, although usually in digitised form 💿

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“Symphony No. 1, ‘The Gothic’: I. Allegro assai” by Ole Schmidt, LSO, Manning, Minty, Mitchinson, Thomas

Havergal Brian – Symphony No. 1, ‘The Gothic’

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