This collection brings together several significant recordings of the music of John McCabe, none ofwhich has appeared before on CD. The First Symphony, heard here in its only recording to date, is awork of striking emotional directness and explosive energy. The Fantasy on a Theme of Liszt wasdescribed by Harold Truscott as ‘wonderfully organic… a concert piece which should interest anypianist worth his salt’. Scored for very large orchestra, Tuning develops layers of texture and sonorityof overwhelming richness. This is the only recording of John McCabe as conductor.
