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Orchestral, Symphonies, Simpson, R (composer)
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If you know that feeling of expectancy, of vast potential energy, at the outset of a great symphony, you'll surely respond to the opening of Simpson's Ninth – and be wholly engrossed. You'll... —
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Gramophone Awards, 1989, Winner - Contemporary
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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Robert Simpson: Symphony No. 3
RecommendedBernard Walton (clarinet)
London Symphony Orchestra, The Aeolian String Quartet, Jascha Horenstein
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Building a Library, October 2006, Highly Recommended
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Robert Simpson: Symphony Nos. 5 & 6
London Symphony Orchestra, Sir Andrew Davis, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Sir Charles Groves
The 1973 performance of the Fifth, with a young Andrew Davis conducting the London Symphony Orchestra on top form, is a tour de force. Despite a few intrusive coughs, both the energy and the... —
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Gramophone Magazine, Critics' Choice 2021
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Simpson: Symphony No. 11 & Variations on a theme by Carl Nielsen
City of London Sinfonia, Matthew Taylor
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Kensington Symphony Orchestra plays Walton, Shostakovich and Simpson
Julian Rolton (piano)
Kensington Symphony Orchestra, Russell Keable
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The Third Symphony is Simpson's best-known work and Vernon Handley play the symphony like the repertoire piece it deserves to be, and Hyperion's recording reveals a wealth of unsuspected detail... —
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The first performances of these symphonies had shown many characteristic and admirable qualities, but there was a suspicion of some tentativeness a lowering of sights even, after the explosive... —
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