Kenneth Leighton: Symphony No. 2 "Sinfonia Mistica" Op. 69 (1973)

BBC National Chorus & Orchestra of Wales conducted by / Coro y Orquesta Nacional de Gales de la BBC dirigidos por Richard Hickox. Soprano: Sarah Fox.
I. Sonetto (0:00)
II. Scherzo I (6:15)
III. Meditazione (15:06)
IV. Elegia (21:59)
V. Scherzo II (29:10)
VI. Finale (32:14)
Kenneth Leighton (1929-1988) was an English composer. Issued from the middle class as most composers of the age, Leighton immersed himself into choral writing and produced great works that inscribe into late modernism more than into avant-garde. His Symphony No. 2, dedicated to his late mother, is a reflection on human mortality and its relationship to uncertainty during “the second half of life”; one that everyone experiments uniquely and at different times.
Kenneth Leighton (1929-1988) era un compositor inglés. Salido de la clase media como varios compositores de la época, Leighton se inmergió en la música coral y produjo grandes obras que lo inscriben en el modernismo tardío más que en la vanguardia. Su Sinfonía No. 2, dedicada a su madre, es una reflexión de la mortalidad humana y su relación con la incertidumbre durante “la segunda mitad de la vida”, que cada quien experimenta diferentemente y en momentos distintos.
Image/imagen: Church with Sheep in a Graveyard / Iglesia con rebaño en un camposanto. Harry Kingsley, 1962.

[@paulamrod537]

This composer is always marvelously consistent with a higher quality and a trademark which one can recognize.

[@BytomGirl]

OMG, this painting reminds me so much of the church in Grittleton in Wiltshire where I lived for a short time in it's rectory

[@galas062]

thank you!

[@quaby1194]

interesting how the description of Leighton's middle class background conflicts with Wikipedia's:" "Unlike most of his Oxford contemporaries, Leighton came from a working-class area of an industrial northern town; so his early rise to prominence is all the more remarkable"