Havergal Brian Gothic Symphony from Hyperion

[Alan Howe]

By far the best assessment and review I have read...

[Dundonnell]

By far the best assessment and review I have read...

Yes....and written by an American postgraduate student in his early 20s who was studying in London for a year and who attended the performance of the Gothic shortly before returning to Texas.

Now doesn't that put professional music critics to shame

[J.Z. Herrenberg]

Perhaps Brian's music isn't so quintessentially English...?

It isn't. It is universal. It has an English inflection, though, just as Schubert and Bruckner have an Austrian one.