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The album "TWO BROTHERS" by composer Charles Mauleverer was digitally released on November 1, 2025.
The work is a five-movement symphony (his Second Symphony) with the full title TWO BROTHERS: A War Symphony, which tells the true story of two young Jersey brothers, Arthur and Charles Mallet, who fought in the First World War. Charles was killed in 1916, while Arthur survived.
The symphony was first performed live at a concert in Jersey in 2018 to commemorate the centenary of the Armistice, but the full orchestral recording with the Royal Scottish National Orchestra was released as a digital album in late 2025. It is part of a larger project called "The Jersey Symphonies" which also includes the symphony "Five Curiosities".
The central movement of "Two Brothers" notably features an "acoustic palindrome", a complex technique where a recorded segment of the orchestra playing the movement is reversed and played simultaneously with the live performance to evoke the cyclical nature of war.