Gramophone Magazine
Critics' Choice 2020

Kitty Whately (mezzo-soprano), Christopher Bowen (tenor), Tom Raskin (tenor), Andrew Rupp (bass), Jamie W Hall (bass), Marcus Farnsworth (baritone), Georgina Wheatley (soprano)

BBC Symphony Orchestra, BBC Symphony Chorus, Martyn Brabbins

Vaughan Williams: Symphony No. 5 in D major
Vaughan Williams: The Pilgrim's Progress - A Bunyan Sequence

Vaughan Williams’s incidental music for ‘The Pilgrim’s Progress’ has seldom been heard in its original guise since the 1906 premiere; yet further reason to acquire an outstanding interpretation of the composer’s Symphony No 5.

"Brabbins’s Vaughan Williams symphony cycle goes from strength to strength with an outstanding Fifth from strength to strength with this impressively cogent, self-effacing Fifth, a reading notable for its unhurried demeanour, clarity of texture and orchestral playing of conspicuous finesse and lustre…The coupling could hardly be more intriguing...A rather special release, this, and emphatically not to be missed." - Gramophone Magazine, December 2020.