Tippett: Symphonies Nos 1 & 2

Tippett’s first two published symphonies are mature and confident works dating from the middle of the last century. Coruscating accounts from Martyn Brabbins and the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra are sure to win new friends for this marvellous music.

CDA68203  74 minutes 40 seconds
‘This disc launches the first 21st-century cycle of Tippett’s symphonies, and does so in great style … this is remarkable music-making, and recorded with all the appropriate richness of colour an ...
BBC Music Magazine
‘Tippett’s first two symphonies fill a CD comfortably, and here hugely inspiringly, the juxtaposition bringing out interesting links between them, each a grand four-movement structure. The contrast is ...