Product DescriptionFrom the very first notes, with their tolling bells, Casella's Symphony No. 2 is deeply indebted to its
model, Mahler's own Symphony No. 2, whose Parisian première was championed by Casella during his
years in the French capital. A notte alta ('In deepest night'), which Casella described as 'the only piece
of programme music I have ever composed... inspired by emotional events in my personal life'
(Casella's love for his Parisian student Yvonne Müller), is a work of intimate self-revelation and sombre
meditation on 'the utter indifference of Nature to human passions'. Casella's Symphony No. 1 is
available on Naxos 8.572413