Havergal Brian: Symphonies Nos. 10 & 30

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Brabbins's direct approach suits the couplings, producing splendid accounts of the Third English Suite (coeval with the Gothic Symphony and surprisingly pastoral in places) and the orchestral... — Gramophone Magazine, August 2011 More…

Release Date: 14th Mar 2011
Catalogue No: CDLX7267
Label: Dutton
Series: Epoch
Length: 64 minutes

Brian: Symphony No.10 in C minor: Adagio e solenne - Adagio - Allegro con fuoco - Lento espressivo

Work length16:15

Album only

Royal Scottish National Orchestra
Martyn Brabbins

Brian: English Suite No.3

Work length17:45

$5.00

$7.00

Royal Scottish National Orchestra
Martyn Brabbins

i. Ancient Village (Andante tranquillo)

Track length3:17

$1.00

$1.40

ii. Epithalamium (Giocoso)

Track length3:17

$1.00

$1.40

iii. Postillions (Vivace - Lento)

Track length2:01

$1.00

$1.40

iv. The Stonebreaker (Andante ma sempre maestoso - Allegro)

Track length4:47

$1.00

$1.40

v. Merry Peasant (Allegro molto)

Track length4:23

$1.00

$1.40

Brian: Concerto for Orchestra: Maestoso - Allegro moderato - Maestoso - Andante cantabile - Animato - Allegretto scherzando - Lento

Work length15:47

Album only

Royal Scottish National Orchestra
Martyn Brabbins

Brian: Symphony No.30 in B flat Minor

Work length14:55

$2.50

$3.50

Royal Scottish National Orchestra
Martyn Brabbins

i. Lento

Track length6:10

$1.00

$1.40

ii. Moderato comodo e leggiero

Track length8:45

$1.50

$2.10

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Recorded: RSNO Centre, Henry Wood Hall, Glasgow, 15-16 September 2010

This is Dutton Epoch’s first modern Havergal Brian programme, recorded by the brilliant Royal Scottish National Orchestra and conducted with sympathy and powerful projection by Martyn Brabbins. The large array of percussion in Symphony No.10 is caught in demonstration-worthy sound, as are the mighty climaxes and Brian’s quiet, atmospheric Sibelian interludes. In contrast, the gentler textures of Brian’s delightfully tuneful English Suite No.3, heard here on CD for the first time, are sympathetically conveyed in a rewarding acoustic. This is involving music on a large scale, which addresses a far wider audience than many more specialist Brian programmes. The two complete discoveries are the dramatic Thirtieth Symphony and the brilliant Concerto for Orchestra. Both are well worth investigation, and the performances by the Royal Scottish National Orchestra under Brabbins place them memorably in Brian’s still emerging achievement of his time. This is a CD for all music lovers who respond to powerful orchestral scores in a tonal but individual idiom.

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August 2011

Brabbins's direct approach suits the couplings, producing splendid accounts of the Third English Suite (coeval with the Gothic Symphony and surprisingly pastoral in places) and the orchestral Concerto. But the Thirtieth Symphony is the pinnacle of Dutton's disc; an extraordinarily compelling polyphonic fantasy, one of Brian's finest inspirations, punching far above its relatively modest weight and compellingly interpreted.

May 2011

Garry Walker tackles [the Burlesque Variations] head on, the vigorous response of the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra maintained through to the theme's final transformation in a brazen apotheosis....It is in [Oedipus at Colonus], too, that the modernist tendencies in Brian's music find their fullest realization. Suffice it to add that Brabbins has the measure of this powerful and disquieting work though to its wrenching final bars.

Havergal Brian: Symphonies Nos. 10 & 30

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