Listen to the 10 best recordings to discover one of the great symphonists of the 20th century
No 1
A Sea Symphony
LPO / Bernard Haitink
(Warner Classics/EMI)
‘A breathtakingly good recording in all respects’
No 2
A London Symphony
LSO / Richard Hickox
(Chandos)
‘Quite simply, an essential purchase’
No 3
A Pastoral Symphony & Symphony No 4
LPO / Bernard Haitink
(Warner Classics / EMI)
‘Interpretations of great intelligence’
No 4
Symphony No 5
LSO / Richard Hickox
(Chandos)
‘An urgently communicative reading’
No 5
Symphony No 6
Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra /
(BR-Klassik)
‘An outstanding and very welcome disc’
No 6
Sancta Civitas
The Bach Choir, Bournemouth SO / David Hill
(Naxos)
‘Responsive to the beauty and the terror’
No 7
String Quartets
Maggini Quartet, Garfield Jackson va
(Naxos)
‘They clearly love this music deeply’
No 8
The Lark Ascending
Tasmin Little vn BBC PO / Sir Andrew Davis
(Chandos)
‘A feast of works for violin and orchestra’
No 9
Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis
BBC SO / Sir Andrew Davis
(Warner Apex)
‘Ravishing string sonorities’
No 10
Five Variants of ‘Dives and Lazarus’
LSO / Richard Hickox
(Chandos)
‘Heart-warming, lucid and nicely flowing’
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