Daniel Jones - Symphony No.6* • Symphony No.9** • The Country Beyond the Stars***
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra* ***
Label: Lyrita
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"[Daniel Jones’s] language is immediately striking: dark, craggy, strongly dramatic and powerfully vehement. It frowns a good deal, and he has a way of what one might call ‘block orchestration’, whole groups or families of instruments being used like thickly applied pigments that can lead to densely full textures at times. Once on his wavelength, however, there is much to admire here … the dark, urgent drama of the Sixth Symphony, the lift-off that Jones’s brusquely springy rhythms can attain, above all a sort of hard-won sustained intensity of utterance ... make him a genuine symphonist, one whose wrestlings with the form are absorbing even when they don’t quite come off. The performances are excellent throughout" Michael Oliver, Gramophone |
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