Next One Along

And we come to Symphony no. 11 by Robert Simpson, coupled with Variations on a Theme by Nielson. Matthew Taylor conducts the City of London Sinfonia. Simpson was a British 20th century composer of note. Hyperion have recorded all his symphonies but they seldom seem to get a concert hearing. Music waiting to be discovered by many, nothing to scare the horses. Difficult to see why Shostakovich for instance can be found in a concert hall somewhere in the world virtually every day of the year, whereas Simpson maybe once a year. Having said that, I only have two cd's of Simpson's music compared to circa fifteen or so of Shostakovich.

These random musings ill no doubt change in nature as this blog goes along. I didn't see any point in just extracting some info from the cd booklet notes but will try to give a little background to what might be less familiar names. Note the Nielson variations on this disk for instance, when I first began investigating classical music a few years back I had never even heard of Nielson, let alone Simpson.