Recorded at Henry Wood Hall, Glasgow 1920 September 2006 The Dutton Arnell series continues with the eagerly awaited second volume of his symphonies and, like the epic Third Symphony (issued on CDLX 7161), here we have another equally vivid...
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Recorded at Henry Wood Hall, Glasgow 1920 September 2006 The Dutton Arnell series continues with the eagerly awaited second volume of his symphonies and, like the epic Third Symphony (issued on CDLX 7161), here we have another equally vivid symphonic response to the Second World War, written in New York between 1942 and 1944. Who can fail to respond to Arnells wide-spanning lines, his inexorable climaxes, his remarkable slow movement? Soon after the Second Symphony, the Piano Concerto was heard in New York, later at the proms in London, and now, championed here by David Owen Norris, it is revealed as one of the most approachable British concertos of its time. "The torrent of enterprising offerings from Dutton Epoch shows no sign of abating. Martin Yates and the RSNO follow up their exciting premiere recording of Richard Arnell's Third Symphony with no less compelling and spirited rendering of its predecessor from 1942. Not heard until 1988, this is a most invigorating, tautly argued... See less 
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