Bantock - Celtic Symphony [Handley-Royal Philharmonic Orchestra]
A nice little regular in my Blog [2 September 2011 & 26th May 2010], and The Witch Of Atlas is great too, it's good that both Vernon Handley and Hyperion are searching enough to put little known music like this out, the only gripe about the disc is that at 35 minutes, i don't think that the last item the Hebridean Symphony is quite good enough, i would seriously liked to have heard some more medium length pieces from Bantock, but what we have here is marvellous music that should be well recorded, instead we get another Franck or Gorecki Symphony, come on!, be more creative than that people, this disc is my fourth most favourite disc of all time, and that's really saying something, e
Vernon Handley was a British Conductor, born in 1930 and died in 2008, he recorded this disc in 1990, the front cover is a painting by Johan Dahl called 'Morning After A Stormy Night', a nice painting, look at that orange sky!.
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Here's Bantock's Celtic Symphony being performed on YouTube, notice the emphasis on the six harps.
Here's Bantock's Celtic Symphony being performed on YouTube, notice the emphasis on the six harps.
