Title: Worth getting to know.
Review: The Butterworth is a somewhat disjointed symphony, and not played particularly well on this disc, but repeated listening will reveal more to enjoy. The Gipps, on the other hand, is a delightful work with immediate appeal, full of catchy tunes, and expresses subdued joy after a major distaster, in this instance WW2. The playing here is more assured. A disc worth acquiring then, for those interested in neglected, conservative, middle 20th ceentury British music. though neither of these symphonies approach the epic proportions found in the symphony of E.J. Moeran, for example, or any of the symphonies of Arnold Bax, to name just two other relatively neglected composers of an earlier and similar period. [Moeran's symphony dates from 1937].An excellent booklet comes with this disc.
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