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Alberic Magnard  - Symphonies | Brilliant Classics 93712

Alberic Magnard - Symphonies

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Label: Brilliant Classics

Cat No: 93712

Barcode: 5028421937120

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 3

Genre: Orchestral

Release Date: 14th July 2008

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Magnard himself was was a withdrawn, austere misanthrope, much of whose music was lost in 1914 when the Germans killed him and set fire to his mansion after he had shot two of their calvary in a somewhat characteristic act of futile resistance.

The best of what survives are grandly noble symphonies and a string quartet, in a strong and sinewy but richly lyrical idiom which often reveals its roots in Magnard's teacher d'Indy and in Wagner, a hearing of whose Tristan had determined him to give up law for music.

These are powerful, compelling, expansive works which make an original accommodation between rustic impulse and sophisticated symphonic structure.

Where Sanderling scores is in the long lyrical tunes which, as in the Scherzo of the Second Symphony, you feel the severe Magnard is allowing himself to write, as it were, under the bedclothes with a torch - this tune, in particular, shaped by Sanderling with great feeling and dynamic range.’ - Gramophone

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