New Russia So/Walker - Havergal Brian: Symphonies Nos. 7 and 16, The Tinker's Wedding: Overture

Havergal Brian�s late creativity is almost unparalleled in musical history � in the last two decades of his life he wrote 25 symphonies. No. 7, the last of his truly large-scale symphonies, was inspired by Goethe�s autobiographical account of his time as a student in Strasbourg. Symphony No. 16 is a tough single-movement work, evoking Ancient Greece and the savagery of the Persian Wars. In bright contrast The Tinker�s Wedding is a sparkling comedy overture based on