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Album Title:Mystery of the Holy Martyrs / Symphony 3
Artist:KBS Symphony Orchestra
Performers:Alan Hovhaness, Vakhtang Jordania, Michael Long
Item Code:ALBUM-00324
Label:Soundset Recordings
Performance Type:   Studio Recording
Genre:Classical
Sub-Genre:Chamber Music, Guitar

 

Generally something of an outcast among establishment musicians (the composer recalls Leonard Bernstein, at Tanglewood, denouncing his Symphony No. 1 as ‘filthy ghetto music’), much of Hovhaness’ work looks Eastward almost in defiance — not just to Armenian modal church music but to Indian ragas and Japanese gugaku music. Symphony No. 3 is the grand exception: an eager embrace of everything Western and classical. In notes supplied by C.F. Peters, publisher of Symphony No. 3, Hovhaness calls the score ‘a tribute to Mozartian classical sonata form.