Eugene Goossens - Phantasy Sextet (1923)

Sir Eugene Aynsley Goossens (26 May 1893 – 13 June 1962) was an English conductor and composer. Please support my channel: https://ko-fi.com/bartjebartmans Phantasy Sextet, Op. 35 (1923) Dedication: Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge 1. Con fuoco (0:00) 2. Adagio (7:25) 3. Allegro (14:38) St. Martin-In-The-Fields Chamber Ensemble Kenneth Sillito, Malcom Latchem, Rita Manning, Robert Smissen, Stephen Orton, Roger Smith The Phantasy Sextet, Op. 35 was written when Goossens was conductor of the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra from 1923 to 1931. This post also involved teaching at the Eastman School of Music. During the late 1920s he often conducted for Vladimir Rosing's American Opera Company, an organization which grew out of the Eastman School. From 1931 to 1946 he succeeded Fritz Reiner as the conductor of the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra. In a tribute to Goossens on his departure for Australia, nine American composers collaborated on Variations on a Theme by Eugene Goossens, for orchestra. The composers were Ernest Bloch, Aaron Copland, Paul Creston, Anis Fuleihan, Roy Harris, Walter Piston, Bernard Rogers, Roger Sessions and Deems Taylor, with Goossens himself writing the finale. Goossens spent nine years in Australia, from 1947 to 1956. He conducted the Sydney Symphony Orchestra and other groups and was the director of the NSW State Conservatorium of Music. He held these positions concurrently until March 1956, when he was forced to resign after a major public scandal, only a year after being knighted.