Delphian’s first orchestral recording presents a richly imagined new choral symphony by Edward Harper, setting it alongside chamber works by this inventive and limpidly expressive composer. Harper’s music takes its place firmly within the British symphonic tradition, yet ranges wider still in its deeply felt response to human experience, from the nineteenth-century Dorset of William Barnes to a message of hope and reconciliation from the present-day Middle East.

'Harper's gift for direct expression, uncluttered by fashion or obscurantist technique, was heard at its best here'
- The Times, November 2006

‘... powerful and moving'
- The Herald, November 2006

Track listing

Three folk settings for string quartet
1. The Lowlands of Holland
2. The Ash Grove
3. Mairi's Wedding

4. Scena for solo cello
5. Scena II for flute, cello and piano

Symphony No. 2
6. Overture
7. The Turnen Stile
8. Them! Not us!
9. Miracles
10. Epilogue

Total playing time [59.00]

World premiere recordings