Allegro Largo Scherzo Finale

I managed to mix up the programmes for the final NZSO tour, which meant that I missed the concert with the premiere of Leif Segerstam’s Symphony No. 191 Presumably it will turn up on RNZ Concert sometime, but right now I can only comment on the attention that the concert has received in the Dominion [...]

The symphony has, it would be fair to say, fallen rather out of fashion during the modern/post-modern era. Many composers appear to consider it to be an unwieldy, unnecessary, 18th century relic, and many of the composers who do utilise it are stuck in a very much an antiquated musical paradigm, churning out putrefied (neo/post)-romantic [...]