Havergal Brian: Symphony No. 13 & Violin Concerto
Recorded: RSNO Centre, Henry Wood Hall, Glasgow, 31 May & 1 June 2012
Lorraine McAslan (violin)
Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Martyn Brabbins
To be able to get along with Havergal Brian's exasperating talent, you need above-average reserves of patience...Ceaselessly up-for-it RSNO playing and Brabbins's firm direction together make...
Havergal Brian: Symphony No. 13 & Violin Concerto
Recorded: RSNO Centre, Henry Wood Hall, Glasgow, 31 May & 1 June 2012
Lorraine McAslan (violin)
Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Martyn Brabbins
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To be able to get along with Havergal Brian's exasperating talent, you need above-average reserves of patience...Ceaselessly up-for-it RSNO playing and Brabbins's firm direction together make...
About
Following up his previous Dutton Epoch CD devoted to Havergal Brian’s music (CDLX7267), Martyn Brabbins now turns his attention to a very varied second programme of Brian’s music in which Lorraine McAslan is the commanding soloist in Brian’s Violin Concerto. The Royal Scottish National Orchestra powerfully articulate the eloquent Thirteenth Symphony, and a revelatory recording of the Fourth English Suite unlocks this series of charming miniatures in Brian’s most approachable style from the early 1920s. The programme is completed by the scampering, tuneful, short overture The Tinker’s Wedding.
Contents and tracklist
- Havergal Brian, Royal Scottish National Orchestra
- Havergal Brian, Royal Scottish National Orchestra
- Havergal Brian, Royal Scottish National Orchestra
- Havergal Brian, Royal Scottish National Orchestra
Awards and reviews
May 2013
To be able to get along with Havergal Brian's exasperating talent, you need above-average reserves of patience...Ceaselessly up-for-it RSNO playing and Brabbins's firm direction together make the journey...worth persisting with (just).
July 2013
[McAslan offers] a beguiling delicacy of touch...Brian's reputation rests on his symphonies and these discs premiere three and restore to the catalogue the shortest of them all, No. 22...Brabbins compels again in one of the toughest and most elusive, No. 13...A score that repays familiarity, Brabbins reveals its lyricism and polyphonic subtlety.
