One of the mightiest of first symphonies, Vaughan Williams’s setting of Walt Whitman creates a very special sense of occasion. The coupling is more Whitman: RVW’s later, virtually unknown Darest thou now, O soul for chorus and strings.
‘[Brabbins's] is a painstakingly prepared and intelligently paced conception, combining a perceptive awareness of the grander scheme (climaxes are built and resolved with unerring authority), exemplar ...
BBC Music Magazine
‘Why is it [Record Review’s] Disc of the Week? Well, it’s the sense of timeless, spacious majesty, the somehow ‘quiet grandeur’—and that’s not a contradiction here—that Brabbins achieves, surges of so ...
BBC Music Magazine‘Why is it [Record Review’s] Disc of the Week? Well, it’s the sense of timeless, spacious majesty, the somehow ‘quiet grandeur’—and that’s not a contradiction here—that Brabbins achieves, surges of so ...