Vaughan Williams: Symphonies Nos 3 & 4
BBC Symphony Orchestra, Martyn Brabbins (conductor)
CDA68280
Compelling performances of two very different symphonies, the complex visionary pantheism of the ‘Pastoral’ an ideal foil for the unbridled ferocity of No 4. An added incentive, Martyn Brabbins’s idiomatic realization of Vaughan Williams’s choral Saraband 'Helen' (a first recording) is a real discovery.