Special offer. Goossens: Orchestral Works, Vol. 3
Phantasy Concerto & Symphony No. 2
Tasmin Little (violin), Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, Sir Andrew Davis
Goossens revels in quick-changing, imaginative orchestral textures, succulently displayed in Chandos’s typically lustrous and wide-ranging recording.
Special offer. Goossens: Orchestral Works, Vol. 3
Phantasy Concerto & Symphony No. 2
Tasmin Little (violin), Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, Sir Andrew Davis
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Goossens revels in quick-changing, imaginative orchestral textures, succulently displayed in Chandos’s typically lustrous and wide-ranging recording.
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Sir Andrew Davis and his Melbourne forces turn to Goossens’s Second Symphony and the Phantasy Concerto for Violin and Orchestra, featuring Tasmin Little as soloist.
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Awards and reviews
March 2020
Goossens revels in quick-changing, imaginative orchestral textures, succulently displayed in Chandos’s typically lustrous and wide-ranging recording.
March 2020
The performances are superbly accomplished and committed...One curious aspect of this pair of works (and those on the first volume, as well) is their colour, for they all suggest to me that they were written using the musical equivalent of black-and-white film.
January 2020
the ever-admirable Tasmin Little... plays with characteristically rich tone...Preparation and execution alike are admirable.
March 2020
Outstanding all round.
Classical Music April 2020
The Symphony shows Goossens as more daring than most of his British contemporaries, adopting a style close to Hindemith and Frank Martin. The concerto grows in stature the more one listens. It could not ask for a better champion than Tasmin Little – languid, elegant and brittle by turn
