D. Jones - Symphonies 4 7 & 8 - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

D. Jones - Symphonies 6 & 9 [COMPACT DISCS] date 03/13/2007

Of the British composers to have emerged immediately before Elgar, the most significant were Sir Hubert Parry and Sir Charles Stanford. Central to Stanford' achievement are the seven symphonies covering the greater part of his career.

This final volume of the Naxos cycle of the complete Stanford Symphonies features the substantial First Symphony, whose first movement, with it's spacious introduction and exposition repeat, is a remarkably broad structure and, at something a little.