Jani Christou - his two symphonies

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Symphony 1 - this sounds rather like Vaughan Williams:


Symphony 2 (in three movements) This may give pleasure to the modernists:
First movement:


Second movement:


Third movement:

   
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[Bobyor]

I look forward to hearing these.The only pieces I know by Christou are much later and very modernist, even experimental. The idea that he started life as a quite conservative composer is fascinating. He had, after all, only a few years to make this transformation. There has certainly been interest in his later work quite recently, from conductor Ilan Volkov (always a ready source of ideas and foraging of interesting music) and others.