This release from the English Chandos label, Barber: Symphony No. 2/Adagio for Strings combines Samuel Barber's neglected, and at one point withdrawn, Symphony No. 2 with an equally neglected American nineteenth century symphony written by a composer not even on the fringes of the middleweight repertoire radar screen, George Frederick Bristow. The combination of these two disparate figures is both imaginative and in some ways mutually beneficial; Barber, the Romantic, trying to take baby steps into a modern idiom not wholly ...
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This release from the English Chandos label, Barber: Symphony No. 2/Adagio for Strings combines Samuel Barber's neglected, and at one point withdrawn, Symphony No. 2 with an equally neglected American nineteenth century symphony written by a composer not even on the fringes of the middleweight repertoire radar screen, George Frederick Bristow. The combination of these two disparate figures is both imaginative and in some ways mutually beneficial; Barber, the Romantic, trying to take baby steps into a modern idiom not wholly comfortable to him, and Bristow, the classicist, trying to come to grips with the extended forms of his age. Barber's second symphony is still relatively unknown to the public at large, having lost so much ground in the two decades when it was out of circulation. This recording by Neeme Järvi and the Detroit Symphony Orchestra is easily the best this poor symphony has ever had. Järvi makes the case that this once "lost" work is not only good, but great music; an American World War...
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