01. At the Tabard Inn At the Tabard Inn (Overture)
02. Concerto da chiesa I. Veni, Emmanuel
03. Concerto da chiesa II. Corde natus
04. Concerto da chiesa III. Laetatus sum
05. Symphony in G major I. Energico
06. Symphony in G major II. Andante
07. Symphony in G major III. Allegro risoluto-L’istesso tempo-Molto moderato-Vivace-Molto sostenuto-Poco andante-Poco allegretto-Presto-Grazioso
08. Symphony in G major IV. Poco adagio-Andante-Allegro assai-Andante molto moderato
First performed in 1938, Dyson’s Symphony had to wait until the 1990s to achieve the recognition it deserves as one of the finest twentieth-century British symphonies. Although the symphony opens and closes in a mood of pageantry from the world of his choral masterpiece, The Canterbury Pilgrims, it is also a work of troubled times and the distant rumble of war. Passages of engimatic beauty and icy landscapes alternate with mock-courtly dance music and brilliant orchestral effects reminiscent of Sibelius, Borodin and Rimsky-Korsakov. The Concerto da Camera is a work in the great tradition of English string compositions from Purcell to Tippett. The composer himself characterized it as ‘founded on old hymn-melodies so woven in, I hope, that it is not easy to be sure which are old and which are new’.