Symphony No.2 in C Major
Also known as Sinfonietta No.2

DATE WRITTEN	1945
DEDICATED TO	The Worshipful Company of Musicians
FIRST LONDON PERFORMANCE	17 November 1948, Central Hall, Westminster London Symphony Orchestra, conducted by the composer
FIRST BROADCAST PERFORMANCE	1 May 1946 BBC Symphony Orchestra, conductor Sir Adrian Boult BBC People's Palace studio broadcast

FROM CD NOTES (Eric Wetherell)
The composer described [this symphony] as "a meditation on war, suffering and victory", though he had in mind not only the course of World War II. He had enlisted in World War I, his letters home showing how profoundly he was affected, while the death of a much-loved brother (Anstey, pictured above) in the same conflict brought on a grief from which he never wholly recovered.

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CD held by BMIC, email. Performers: Munchen Symphoniker, conductor Douglas Bostock at Carl Orff Saal/Gasteig, Munche, July 1997. Catalogue No.CLASSCD204, BMIC catalogue No.969

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