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Robert Simpson (1921-1997)

Symphonies Nos 6 & 7

Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Vernon Handley (conductor)
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Label: Hyperion
Recording details: September 1987
Philharmonic Hall, Liverpool, United Kingdom
Produced by Andrew Keener
Engineered by Mike Hatch
Release date: April 1988
Total duration: 59 minutes 51 seconds
 

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).

Awards

GRAMOPHONE CRITICS' CHOICE

Reviews

‘The Sixth is a work of immense power, and if the Seventh is a more cryptic statement this recording certainly brings it into clearer focus than before’ (Gramophone)

‘Surely about the most imposing symphonic cycle in progress by any living composer … the involvement and sweep of the performances are thrilling’ (The Independent)
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