Thursday, March 26, 2015

Roger Sessions: Symphony No.2 (1946)


New York Philharmonic
Dimitri Mitropolos, director

It has to be significant for the difference in language and mood of Roger Sessions Second Symphony that the Great Depression, followed by the Second World War came between it and the first.  It is, if anything, even more mature than the first one, even more serious and profound.  I believe one other recording of it has been released, there should be at least a half dozen of all of them in the catalog.

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