Robert Simpson: Symphony No. 11; Variations on a Theme by Carl Nielsen
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Composer: Robert [Composer] SimpsonConductor: Matthew Taylor
Performer: Matthew Taylor
Performer: City of London Sinfonia
Orchestra: City of London Sinfonia
Edition: Music CD
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: Import
CD Release Date: 2004-09-14
Music Label: Hyperion UK
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Free Music Review: A highly structured, beautifully wrought work of art
Hit: 5 Stars
In plain and simple terms, Robert Simpson's last symphony is one of his very best. Strikingly it bears little resemblance to his others. As one other reviewer has noted, there are traces of Shostakovich in the first movement, but traces only. This is a very mature, highly structured work. It possesses the same austerity of many other Simpson symphonies, but is milder in tone; almost stoic, not given to the outbursts of earlier works. But mixed in with this milder structure there are the beautiful hammering staccato pulses in the strings that occur in the middle of the first movement, and then return to mesmerize the listener in the gradual build-up of the second movement. The ending is ironic: you would expect Robert Simpson to go out raging against the dying of the light, but no; he goes out as the magician: a sudden puff of smoke, and he is gone, with only silence left behind. The Nielson Variations are old-style Simpson, though still quite good. One final note: The UK music establishment will one day realize what a truly great composer Simpson was; the sooner the better.
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