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Spring Symphony

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Spring Symphony

Original name for Robert Schumann's first symphony, in B flat major, Op. 38, finished in February 1841 and first performed at Leipzig by Felix Mendelssohn,on 31 March 1841.

Choral work by Benjamin Britten, first performed at Amsterdam on 9 July 1949.



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There they met up with the touring RLPO in performances of Beethoven's Choral Symphony and Britten's Spring Symphony, when they were joined by the Vienna Boys Choir.
Harding came into his own in Britten's Spring Symphony, his huge forces marshalled to impressive effect through the work's austere seasonal progression.
And no matter what history may say of Britten's peculiarly cowardly brand of pacifism - running away to America - the Spring Symphony remains a powerful precursor to the War Requiem, composed for the re-opening of Coventry cathedral in 1964.
 
 
 
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