Dohnányi: Symphony No. 2 | The Orchestra Now

The Orchestra Now (TŌN), conducted by Leon Botstein, performs Dohnányi's Symphony No. 2 at The Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts at Bard College on April 22, 2017.
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Allegro con brio, ma energico ed appassionato (fast, with spirit, but energetic and passionate) 0:00
Adagio pastorale, molto con sentiment (slow and pastoral, with great emotion) 17:13
Burla: Allegro (Fast and playful) 31:03
Introduzione, variazone con fuga sopra un corale di J.S. Bach, e coda (Introduction, variations and fugue on a chorale by J.S. Bach, and coda) 35:44

Ernő Dohnányi
Born: 7/27/1877 in Pozsony, Hungary
Died: 2/9/1960 at age 82 in NYC

Written: 1943–44, at age 67; revised in 1957

Original version premiered: 11/23/1948 in London by the Chelsea Symphony Orchestra; Norman Del Mar, conductor
Revised version premiered: 3/15/1957 in Minneapolis by the Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra; Antal Dorati, conductor

Concert notes by former TŌN clarinetist Elias Rodriguez at https://www.theorchestranow.org/dohna....

Marlan Barry, audio producer and recording engineer