Symphony in D, Bride Of Dionysus: Prelude
TOVEY, Sir Donald Francis

Catalogue Number: TOCC0033
EAN: 5060113440334
Release Date: 06 February 2006
Duration: 63:48

The Bride of Dionysus: Prelude
Symphony in D, Op. 32

Malmö Opera Orchestra, Sweden
George Vass, conductor

Donald Francis Tovey (1875-1940) has long been known as one of the finest writers on music in English – but he saw himself primarily as a composer. His powerful and ambitious Symphony, written in 1913, has its stylistic roots in Brahms and Bruckner, and more distantly in Schumann, but Tovey was also open to contemporary developments: the harmonic procedures occasionally invoke Reger, the adventurous use of orchestral colour suggests Mahler and Nielsen and the scale – it is almost an hour in length – casts the work as a mighty cousin to Elgar’s two symphonies, finished not long before. This is its first recording since Tovey himself conducted a BBC broadcast performance in 1937. The disc opens with the first recording of the gentle, noble Prelude to Tovey’s only opera, The Bride of Dionysus, begun in 1907 and completed in 1918.

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See also:

• Tovey: Cello Concerto, Air for strings, Elegiac Variations
• Tovey: Chamber Music, Volume 1

Track Listing, MP3 Downloads & Streaming Samples

Track No.	Track Title/Details	Duration	Sample	Download Track
1	The Bride of Dionysus: Prelude (1918) Sir Donald Francis Tovey, composer Malmö Opera Orchestra, Sweden George Vass, conductor (first recording)	5:46
	Symphony in D, Op. 32 (1918) Sir Donald Francis Tovey, composer Malmö Opera Orchestra, Sweden George Vass, conductor (first digital recording)	58:02
2	I. Allegro maestoso	18:24
3	II. Vivace ma non troppo presto	13:10
4	III. Canzone Dorica – Adagio	12:37
5	IV. Allegro con moto energico	13:51

Artists

Sir Donald Francis Tovey, composer

Malmö Opera Orchestra, Sweden, orchestra
[credit: Stefan Klaverdal]

George Vass, conductor