WILLIAM ALWYN

 

Symphony No. 2

Symphony No. 3

Symphony No. 5 (Hydriotaphia)

 

London Philharmonic Orchestra / William Alwyn

 

“William Alwyn is a leading member of the ‘lost’ generation of British composers, who wrote important music in the central decades of the twentieth century. His symphonic style is in a post-Sibelian tradition, with motives and ideas appearing in embryo, cogently argued and always finding some kind of apotheosis, inspiring or with an element of disillusionment, which surely reflects human experience. [The music] is for me so much more immediately rewarding than the Boulez school, and I hope to tempt you to explore it further. The performances are passionately authoritative and the vintage recording, from the 1970s, splendidly engineered.” Ivan March, Gramophone

 

Lyrita SRCD228