Robert Simpson: Symphony No.3

Robert Simpson: Symphony No.3Release Date: 1 April 2006 A powerful and original symphonist, Robert Simpson (1921 1997) gave new life to the form at a time when the avant garde was enthusiastically declaring its death. His Symphony No 3 is dedicated to his friend and fellow composer Havergal Brian. It is a work of dramatic contrasts and irrepressible energy; Robert Simpson described the second of its two movements as 'a huge composed accelerando'. The London Symphony Orchestra is

the Radcliffe Trust and the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival

Wathen Hall

with Goehr's Prelude and Rondo performed on either side

Editing & mixing DAVID LEFEBER

All Britten and Pears specialists will want the issue to which Colin Matthews contributes authoritative annotations

Aware of Britten’s own revival and adoption of English music

[…] As for the orchestral playing

– led here by German conductor Kevin John Edusei – exudes energetic expertise' BBC Music Magazine ★★★★★

From the initial

This wide-ranging work for large orchestra contrasts the dark and sensuous orchestral textures of Mahler with exotically Messiaenic percussion

The opera’s final climax is truly terrifying’ Opera Now

These are his performances - and he really does give you the sense of a live event