Gordon Jacob - Symphonies 1 & 2

London Philharmonic Orchestra
Barry Wordsworth, conductor

Label: Lyrita
Copyright: 2007 Lyrita Recorded Edition, England
Catalogue number: SRCD.315
UPC/EAN: 5020926031525
Format: CD
Analogue / Digital recording: ADD
Number of discs: 1
Total playing time: 66.25
Price: £ 14.99 (+ postage & packing)

Tracks 1 - 5: Recorded at Watford, 20 January 1994, Producers: Andrew Keener, Oliver Rivers, Engineers: Trygg Tryggvason, Andrew Halifax
Tracks 6 - 9: Recorded at Watford, 24 August 1993, Producer: Andrew Keener, Engineer: Mark Vigars

The prejudice against German music after WWI resulted in an emphasis on the latest French and Russian music of the time, which moulded the language of Jacob’s generation. These influences can be heard in Jacob’s symphonies, from the regular melodic patterns of Poulenc to the rhythmic eccentricities of early Stravinsky, together with the sonorous tuttis of Elgar, still in Jacob’s youth the star in the English firmament.

	Symphony No. 1 (1929) Première Recording	Gordon Jacob (1895 - 1984)	34.18
1	I Allegro e molto risoluto		10.06
2	II Lento e mesto		6.38
3	III Scherzo. Allegro molto		4.15
4	IV Larghetto - allegro moderato - larghetto		7.29
5	V Allegro con fuoco		5.50
	Symphony No. 2 in C major (1945)	Gordon Jacob (1895 - 1984)	32.01
6	I Adagio - Allegro molto		9.04
7	II Adagio molto		10.42
8	III Scherzo. Molto allegro, quasi presto		5.01
9	IV Ground. Andante con moto		7.14