Jack Gallagher: Symphony No. 2 'Ascendant' & Quiet Reflections

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it's hard not to be won over by the prodigious energy, long-term thinking and melodic fecundity of Gallagher's exuberant inspiration, to say nothing of the breathtaking skill and swaggering confidence... — Gramophone Magazine, June 2015 More…

Release Date: 2nd Feb 2014
Catalogue No: 8559768
Label: Naxos
Series: American Classics
Length: 74 minutes

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Gallagher, Jack: Symphony No. 2 "Ascendant"

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London Symphony Orchestra
JoAnn Falletta

I. Boldly

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II. Playfully

Track length9:29

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III. Slowly

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IV. Slowly - Energetically - Fast

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Gallagher, Jack: Quiet Reflections

Work length12:02

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London Symphony Orchestra
JoAnn Falletta
Recorded: 2-3 September 2013
Recording Venue: Blackheath Halls, Blackheath, London, U.K.

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Jack Gallagher continues his association with the London Symphony Orchestra conducted by JoAnn Falletta with Symphony No. 2 ‘Ascendant,’ a robust, colourful work of dramatic contrasts and expansive architecture that seeks to express the aspirations and strivings of the human spirit. Quiet Reflections is a calm, serenely lyrical meditation which evokes a sense of longing for past tranquility. Gallagher’s previous Naxos release Orchestral Music (8559652) with the LSO conducted by JoAnn Falletta was awarded five stars by BBC Music Magazine and hailed as “fresh and exuberant” and for “its explosions of sound and colour” by Gramophone.

The release of Jack Gallagher’s Orchestral Music (8559652) in 2010 aroused a great deal of interest, with Audiophile Audition describing his Symphony in One Movement: Threnody “truly a work of genius”, Gramophone summing it up as “fresh and exuberant, Jack Gallagher’s music speaks proudly of his country’s cultural values in positive, eloquent and healthy ways… The LSO couldn’t sound finer”. Furthermore “the programme gets Rolls-Royce treatment from JoAnn Falletta and the London Symphony Orchestra” (BBC Music Magazine), and Gallagher is “one of JoAnn Falletta’s best discoveries in her continual search for underrated American composers” (Buffalo News). Composed between 2010 and 2013 and recorded here by GRAMMY® winning producer Tim Handley, the second symphony stands as a vitally energetic continuation of this success.

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June 2015

it's hard not to be won over by the prodigious energy, long-term thinking and melodic fecundity of Gallagher's exuberant inspiration, to say nothing of the breathtaking skill and swaggering confidence with which he handles his forces…JoAnn Falletta directs with contagious dedication and encourages the LSO to give of its considerable best; indeed, these players would appear to be having a ball, with standout contributions from the flute and horn principals in particular

Jack Gallagher: Symphony No. 2 'Ascendant' & Quiet Reflections

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