Message #15308

[Vandermolen]

Personally I would include Rubbra: Symphony No 4, with its inspiriting conclusion and certainly Hubert Clifford's 'Symphony 1940' which certainly related to the time of its conclusion and has a wonderfully defiant ending, in which Clifford (according to the booklet notes) defiantly shakes his fist at the heavens and at would-be oppressors (it was written in London during one of the first bombing raids of the Blitz). It can be found on Chandos, accompanied by the equally fine Symphony No 2 by Edgar Bainton (1939-1940).