Elizabeth Watts reviews
Vaughan Williams: Symphonies Nos 3 & 4
BBC Symphony Chorus & Orchestra/Martyn Brabbins, et al (Hyperion)
Handel’s Brockes-Passion in a performance to remember
‘Egarr recognises Handel’s often vivid responses to Brockes’s graphic text and draws from them deeply-felt, contrasting emotions’
The premier recording of Dyson's Choral Symphony
George Dyson wrote his Choral Symphonyin 1910, for his Oxford doctorate, but it gathered dust in the university’s Bodleian Library for the best part of a century until Dyson biographer Paul Spicer discovered it. This is the Symphony’s premiere recording.
Martyn Brabbins conducts Vaughan Williams's A London Symphony