Veale: Symphony 2
Rootham: Symphony 2
The Veale is a powerful work showing, I think, some influence of Shostakovich. The Rootham completed in his final days and the last part dictated to his friend Patrick Hadley has the most unbearably moving final pages - a beautiful work and unsurprisingly quite different to his energetic and tuneful First Symphony.
I came to appreciate the Veale 2 just as highly as you do; big surprise of course. 8) Many thanks for alerting me again to the new Rootham. I must confess that Rootham 1 didn't make as big an impression on me than it did on you - in an earlier phase of your life, if I'm not mistaken :) - but it's certainly music that I can love unconditionally and I'll try the Second ASAP.
