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The Symphony No. 2 of Roger Sessions was begun in 1944 and completed in 1946.〔Prausnitz, pp.220, note p. 312〕 It is in four movements:〔Steinberg, p. 529〕 #Molto agitato – Tranquillo e misterioso (D minor – all keys are "more or less".)〔Sessions quoted in Steinberg, p. 529〕 #Allegretto capriccioso (F minor) #Adagio tranquillo ed espressivo (B-flat minor) #Allegramente (D major) The symphony is dedicated "To the Memory of Franklin Delano Roosevelt", who died while Sessions was composing the Adagio tranquillo.〔 The score is dated "Princeton-Gambier-Berkeley, 1944–46" – it was begun in Princeton, work continued at Kenyon College in Gambier, Ohio, and finished at the University of California at Berkeley. Though the work was originally commissioned by the Ditson Fund of Columbia University,〔 the premiere, under Pierre Monteux and the San Francisco Symphony, took place 9–11 January 1947.〔〔Canarina, p. 168.〕 It received its New York City premiere three years later, on January 12 1950.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=New York Philharmonic Archives Viewer - Program Notes for first New York Performance )〕 Andrea Olmstead describes all of Sessions's symphonies as "serious" and "funereal".〔Olmstead, Andrea (2012). ''Roger Sessions: A Biography'', p.356. Routledge. ISBN 9781135868925.〕 ==Recordings== #Dimitri Mitropoulos/Philharmonic-Symphony Orchestra of New York (Columbia Masterworks 10-inch LP ML 2120, monaural, 1950; reissued on Composers Recordings Inc., 12-inch LP CRI SD 278, 1972; resissued on CD, CRI CD 573, 1990) #Herbert Blomstedt/San Francisco Symphony (London CD, 1994) 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Symphony No. 2 (Sessions)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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