Simpson: Symphony No 9

All of the music on this album is also available as part of the specially priced box set The Complete Symphonies of Robert Simpson: ‘One of the outstanding recording projects of our time … this Hyperion series deserves to stand as a monument while other more superficially glamorous ventures rise and fall around it. If it does not do so, and if it does not eventually force Simpson’s breakthrough into the orchestral repertoire, there will truly be no justice’ (Gramophone).

CDA66299  70 minutes 43 seconds
GRAMOPHONE AWARD WINNER
PENGUIN GUIDE ROSETTE
‘As hypnotic as the star-filled night sky … so utterly absorbing is this symphony that I have hardly given a thought to the performance or the recording … which is surely the best possible t ...
‘Awesome’ (The Independent)
‘A most powerful experience: concentrated, awesome, and as mysterious as some astronomical phenomenon. Played superbly, and no less superbly recorded’ (The Penguin Guide to Compact Discs)