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STANFORD, C.V.: Symphonies, Vol. 4 album cover

Here is a review from Audiophile Audition by Gary Lemco on STANFORD, C.V.: Symphonies, Vol. 4

I have not been exposed to much by way of Sir Charles Villiers Stanford (1852-1924), whose First Symphony (1876) has all the earmarks of the Dvorak style…

Violins and violas com sordino open the meditative proceedings, again all highly reminiscent of Dvorak’s temper…

… An appealing lyric piece, the Clarinet Concerto alternates vivacious figures with a sense of repose, and the last movement makes several allusions to the tumbler’s antics…

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