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I enjoy Soderlind's music.  Reminds me somewhat of Arthur Butterworth in how he incorporated Sibelius and other Nordic elements with some overt expressiveness but also has his own style.  It would be nice if more of his large output was available.  I read somewhere that he has a 9th symphony but can't find if that's accurate.  Do you know anything about that or was it an erroneous bio? 

Has anyone heard any details about Maxwell Davies's latest symphony?  Though he said he completed his cycle with No. 8 over ten years ago, there is now a No. 9.  The composer says his Ninth Symphony will be a deeply serious work embodying reflections on the events of the Queen's reign, including "good and bad, happy and sad".  It sounds very interesting.  Let's hope there are hope to come!

I shall admit that, having lived now for fifty years (of musical listening time) with the three movements of Bruckner's 9th, I viewed with some scepticism this thread and the whole notion of a 'completion'.

I am so used to that glorious, heavenly Adagio concluding the piece that anything cobbled together by others held no interest or attraction for me.

I read the reactions in the link you provided and then I listened to the linked excerpt. Thirty seconds or so into the excerpt from the fourth movement the full Berlin Philharmonic brass intone the chorale. My eyes instantly filled with tears   No one, but no one, in music can conjure such sublime majesty and power from his brass than Bruckner and no one-in my own humble opinion, of course-ever wrote such glorious music.

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How beautifully put.

I really like this composer and wish there were more recordings.  I too enjoy his trombone concerto which has been recorded several times, but none of his symphonies as far as I can find.  I would certainly appreciate anyone adding to what we have to listen to in this forum.

If you will listen to Lowell Leiberman's Symphony No. 2, you will see that the traditional symphony is far from dead.
At least this marvelous symphony makes me feel that way..
There is such an abundance of "music" today, things of real value get lost in all the noise..

Interesting how perspectives differ.  I consider Leiberman's Symphony No. 2 a perfect example of the poor state of modern symphonies.  Though it is extremely tonal, this is absolutely 3rd rate composing with nothing original nor distinctive to say.  What do you think makes this worth hearing?  It reminds me of bad film music. 

I'm intregued by the this work and the positive response its received on this board.  I haven't yet purchased but I found this on youtube.  Without being able to read the text, is this documentary the same work?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iLQUd0hDyZ0

It reminds me of a Mahlerian adagio finale...monumental and noble.  I can only imagine what the rest of the work is like and hope to get it soon.

Hi,

I have these:

Kuchar/Ukrainian State Symphony Orchestra on Naxos
Serebrier on RCA Victor
Shipway/Royal Philharmonic Orchestra on Audiophile
Sinaisky/BBC Philharmonic Orchestra on Chandos
Chailly/Philadelphia Orchestra on Decca
Grin/Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra on Capriccio
M. Shostakovich/London Symphony on Collins

I think the best recording is the Chandos but the best performance is the Chailly.  All of these are good so you won't go wrong but its such a beautiful piece that hearing it over and over with different interpretations doesn't hurt it.  The Naxos isn't bad, just the one I keep going back to is the Chandos.  Maxim Shostakovich's is the most overtly Tchiakovskian/Mahlerian with its really slow tempo and emphasis on the brooding. 

I don't believe there was an OST in the modern sense but the film can be found online where you can hear the music as it was originally performed for the film if that helps.

Everything I heard from the extremely prolific, Derek Bourgeois (b. 1941), I have enjoyed.  His early works written around the 1960's have a William Walton/Shostakovich/Prokofiev feel.  Some of his later works sound more like George Lloyd and Malcolm Arnold, but all are composed with skill.  I think the only reason he is less known is because he writes so much so fast, there is no time to promote, schedule a performance before he's moved on to the next thing.  He has completed 68 symphonies to date but I'm sure that will be out dated by the time I finish this post.  To me, his early works are more to my liking with their adventurousness, but I'd love to hear more than the Symphony No. 2, variations, and Trombone concerto (on BIS no less), and some brass pieces.  There are some performances on youtube but mostly in concert band arrangements and lacking the quality of a modern studio recording.

Does anyone know of any plans to record some of his finer works by some of the labels that focus on neglected repertoire?