Compelling performances of two very different symphonies, the complex visionary pantheism of the ‘Pastoral’ an ideal foil for the unbridled ferocity of No 4. An added incentive, Martyn Brabbins’s idiomatic realization of Vaughan Williams’s choral Saraband 'Helen' (a first recording) is a real discovery.
‘One immediately feels Brabbins’s special affinity for this music in the numinous pacing of the first movement of the Pastoral Symphony … I was most moved by the space, shape and tone Brabbins gi ...
BBC Music Magazine
‘[Symphony No 3] Martyn Brabbins seems completely aware of the duality of the symphony—the sometimes understated beauty of the surface, the turbulence breaking through from below … [Symphony No 4 ...
BBC Music Magazine‘[Symphony No 3] Martyn Brabbins seems completely aware of the duality of the symphony—the sometimes understated beauty of the surface, the turbulence breaking through from below … [Symphony No 4 ...