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Stanford - Symphonies No.3 & No.6 | Naxos 8570355

Stanford - Symphonies No.3 & No.6

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Label: Naxos

Cat No: 8570355

Barcode: 0747313035571

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Genre: Orchestral

Release Date: 28th April 2008

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Completed in 1887, Stanford’s ‘Irish’ Symphony (No.3) enjoyed immediate and widespread success, continuing to be played well into the twentieth century. The ‘Irish’ subtitle indicates its frequent deployment of folk-tunes as melodic material, although the work never strays far from the Austro-German symphonic tradition.

The 1905 Sixth Symphony, by contrast, received only two hearings before succumbing to an eighty-year oblivion. The subtitle, ‘In honour of the life-work of a great artist: George Frederick Watts’, is important: Watts (1817-1904) was among the most lauded British artists of his era and Stanford’s work, if not overtly programmatic, was influenced by instances of Watt’s legacy – for example the equestrian statue in Kensington Gardens, London.

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