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Composer:
Luis de Freitas Branco

Conductor:
Alvaro Cassuto

Background: 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.

CATALOGUE NR: 8572059
RECORD LABEL: Naxos
FORMAT: CD
PRICE: £ 4.77 including VAT, or £ 4.15 excluding VAT
RELEASE DATE: 05-Jan-2009

COMPOSER: Luis de Freitas Branco
TITLE: Orchestral Works 2
TRACKS: Symphony No.2. After a reading of Guerra Junqueiro - Fantasy. Artificial Paradises.
ORCHESTRA: RTE National Symphony Orchestra
CONDUCTOR: Alvaro Cassuto

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