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Plaudits all round to Richard Hickox and his excellent Manchester band (and the Chandos production team) for at last granting Sullivan's Irish symphony the first wholly recommendable digital... — Gramophone Classical Music Guide, 2010
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Gramophone Magazine
March 2001
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Richard Hickox, BBC Philharmonic Richard Hickox, BBC Philharmonic Show 4 remaining tracks for Sullivan, A: The Tempest Suite, Op. 1 Hide 4 tracks for Sullivan, A: The Tempest Suite, Op. 1 Richard Hickox, BBC Philharmonic
2010
Plaudits all round to Richard Hickox and his excellent Manchester band (and the Chandos production team) for at last granting Sullivan's Irish symphony the first wholly recommendable digital recording it so richly deserves. And what a charmer of a work it is! Mendelssohn (and his Reformation Symphony above all) provides the dominant stylistic template, but the work is soundly constructed, effectively scored, and the scherzo's irresistibly perky oboe tune, in particular, already reveals a very real melodic gift. Hickox observes the first-movement repeat, but his direction is highly imaginative and he never allows tensions to sag. What's more, the playing of the BBC Philharmonic ideally combines bright-eyed affection, keen vigour and nimble polish.
