‘Essential listening’ … ‘fabulously assured’ … ‘unequivocally excellent’: just a few of the critical superlatives earned by Martyn Brabbins’s magnificent Vaughan Williams symphony cycle. In this, the penultimate release of the series, two of the late symphonies are coupled with more rare RVW.
‘Proceedings are launched with a scrupulously prepared and enviably cogent account of the towering Sixth, the eager application and clean-limbed poise displayed by the BBC Symphony Orchestra captured ...
BBC Music Magazine
‘It was the sixth symphony that immediately grabbed me by the scruff of the neck and wouldn’t let go. Well, it always should with its opening howl of orchestral anguish … such a perfectly paced p ...
BBC Music Magazine‘It was the sixth symphony that immediately grabbed me by the scruff of the neck and wouldn’t let go. Well, it always should with its opening howl of orchestral anguish … such a perfectly paced p ...