William - Orchestral Music 1 Condition:New as if already in 1972

as if already in 1972 the chance had arisen to keep the academic music world alive through an embrace of the various traditional and folk musics

continual reinvention leads to exploration of new sounds and styles

among other highlights

" Critics have agreed

William - Orchestral Music 1 Condition:New as if already in 1972The music of London born William Wordsworth (1908 88) a great great grandson of the poet's brother Christopher lies downstream from that of Vaughan Williams and Sibelius; like that of his contemporary Edmund Rubbra, Wordsworth's music unfolds spontaneously, as a natural process, with a sense of grandeur perhaps enhanced by his move to the Scottish Highlands in 1961. Three of the four works recorded here display the sober dignity of the instinctive