Alun Hoddinott - Symphony No.2* • Symphony No.3** • Symphony No.5***

London Symphony Orchestra* **
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra***
Norman Del Mar, conductor*
David Atherton, conductor**
Andrew Davis, conductor***

Label: Lyrita
Copyright: 1996 Lyrita Recorded Edition, England
Catalogue number: SRCD.331
UPC/EAN: 5020926033123
Format: CD
Analogue / Digital recording: ADD
Number of discs: 1
Total playing time: 73.47
Price: £ 14.99 (+ postage & packing)

Tracks 1 - 6: No recording information available
Tracks 7, 8: Recorded at Kingsway Hall, March 1973, Producer: James Walker, Engineer: Colin Moorfoot


"Alun Hoddinott is one of the best and most resourceful of living British symphonists, and the return to the catalogue of three demonstrations of that fact is welcome. … these symphonies are more than ‘resourceful’, more than examples of formal ingenuity … their forms seem to have been devised as a discipline for, but also an intensifier of, Hoddinott’s increasingly vivid sense of orchestral drama and colour. And these devices of Hoddinott’s are listener-friendly. The performances are excellent" Michael Oliver, Gramophone


Symphony no.2, Opus 29 Alun Hoddinott 26.55
1 1. Adagio - Allegro ritmico 8.34
2 2. Allegro molto 5.12
3 3. Molto adagio 6.48
4 4. Maestoso - Allegro 6.21
Symphony no.3, Opus 61 Alun Hoddinott 21.28
5 1. Adagio - Presto 11.24
6 2. Allegro - Adagio 10.04
Symphony no.5, Opus 81 Alun Hoddinott 25.23
7 1. Allegro 11.03
8 2. Adagio - Presto 14.20