Track Listing

1. 1st Movement: Allegro - London Philharmonic Orchestra
2. 2nd Movement: Theme & Variations - London Philharmonic Orchestra
3. 3rd Movement: Allegro Risoluto - London Philharmonic Orchestra
4. 1st Movement: Allegro - New Philharmonia Orchestra
5. 2nd Movement: Lento - New Philharmonia Orchestra
6. 3rd Movement: Vivace - New Philharmonia Orchestra
7. 4th Movement: Lento-Allegro Molto - New Philharmonia Orchestra
8. Overture For a Masque - London Philharmonic Orchestra

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #93181 in Music
• Released on: 2007-02-05
• Number of discs: 1
• Dimensions: .21 pounds
• Running time: 79 minutes

Review
...truly the stuff of dreams. GRAMOPHONE AWARD WINNER, HISTORIC RE-ISSUE , 2007 --Andrew Achenbach, Gramophone

Review
This is [Boult s] finest recording...it bears the crown with eager majesty. Shout it from the rooftops! --Rob Barnett, musicweb-international.com

Review
[The Symphony] is a terrific listen, and on balance Boult s is the finest performance of the work...this disc is a classic any way you look at it. --David Hurwitz, classicstoday.com

Customer Reviews

Sublime Symphony
At last, this great reading of Moeran's truly wonderful symphony is available on CD. Boult's reading must be pretty nigh on definitive; superb sound, horn-led, perfect in every respect. Handley's Chandos reading is very fine indeed, and in some respects surpasses even Boult (the emphasis on timpani is telling) but this is a classic of the gramophone, and I - and many other lovers of English music - will be glad to have it restored to the catalogue. The Sinfonietta and overture are equally fine, but the symphony is the main event. Buy it; no, buy two copies in case you lose one...

Magnificent
I'm in agreement with P S C Ebrey here. I have waited for this to appear for decades. Boult's performance of Moeran's magnificent symphony pushes all the other competition into the shade. In my view the only serious challenger is the legendary war-time Heward recording (although I have a soft-spot for the Neville Dilkes EMI version that was my introduction to this work during the LP days).

I have always felt that the last movement was rather episodic but Boult's recording triumphantly refutates my earlier view. The Tapiola-like storm episode is more threatening than in any rival version. This truly is one of the great British symphonies, worthy to stand alongside the much better known Walton Symphony 1, Vaughan Williams Symphony 4 and 6 and Bax symphonies 3,5 and 6. Let us hope that this work is performed live at the proms one day. Another, even lesser known magnificent symphony is Arnell's Symphony 3 (Dutton CD).

unequalled, and too long absent from the catalogue
What can I say but to agree with the two other reviews so far of this outstanding issue? I can remember the first issue of the Symphony on Lyrita LP, to universal acclaim. It's a very effective symphony but needs a strong guiding hand and an idiomatic approach, which is what it gets in bucketloads here. The NPO play magnificently and the whole thing is totally convincing. The Sinfonietta is very attractive and immediately enjoyable and the Overture is likewise - and they are both very well performed - but the Symphony is what makes this new CD so very, very welcome.