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Freitas Branco - Orchestral Works Vol.2 | Naxos 8572059

Freitas Branco - Orchestral Works Vol.2

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Label: Naxos

Cat No: 8572059

Barcode: 0747313205974

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Genre: Orchestral

Release Date: 5th January 2009

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Luís de Freitas Branco was the towering figure in Portugese music during the first half of the 20th Century.

This second disc of a four-volume series of Freitas Branco’s orchestral works features his Second Symphony which combines elements as disparate as Gregorian chant, the boisterous spirit of a Brucknerian scherzo and the influence of Franck and Debussy into a superbly integrated Romantic work.

His tone poem After a reading of Guerra Junqueiro was inspired by Richard Strauss, whose opulent orchestrations it echoes. Artificial Paradises, an eerie piece inspired by de Quincy’s Confessions of an Opium Eater, is regarded as Freitas Branco’s masterpiece par excellence.

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