Branco: Symphony No 3, The Death Of Manfred / Cassuto, NSO Of Ireland

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Label
Naxos
Release Date
May 25, 2010
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      FREITAS BRANCO, LUIS DE
    • PERFORMER
      Cassuto, Rte National So
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      May 25, 2010
    • UPC
      747313237074
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      8572370
    • LABEL
      Naxos
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Orchestral & Symphonic
    Works ⌄

    1. I. Adagio - Allegro

      Composer: Luís de Freitas Branco

      Ensemble: RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: Álvaro Cassuto

    2. II. Lento

      Composer: Luís de Freitas Branco

      Ensemble: RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: Álvaro Cassuto

    3. III. Allegro

      Composer: Luís de Freitas Branco

      Ensemble: RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: Álvaro Cassuto

    4. IV. Allegro vivace

      Composer: Luís de Freitas Branco

      Ensemble: RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: Álvaro Cassuto

    5. A Morte de Manfredo (The Death of Manfred)

      Composer: Luís de Freitas Branco

      Ensemble: RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: Álvaro Cassuto

    6. I. Preludio

      Composer: Luís de Freitas Branco

      Ensemble: RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: Álvaro Cassuto

    7. II. Intermezzo

      Composer: Luís de Freitas Branco

      Ensemble: RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: Álvaro Cassuto

    8. III. Final

      Composer: Luís de Freitas Branco

      Ensemble: RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: Álvaro Cassuto


Naxos’s acclaimed survey of Luís de Freitas Branco’s orchestral works continues with his magisterial Third Symphony which, although composed in 1944, revels in Romantic melodrama and luminous orchestral sonorities. The brooding, agitated atmosphere of his tone poem The Death of Manfred for strings contrasts with the expansive Suite Alentejana No. 2, with its evocations of the rural landscape, folklore and village life of the Alentejo region south-east of Lisbon, where the composer owned a large estate and composed many of his works.