Brian: Agamemnon & Symphonies Nos 6 & 12
John Findon (Agamemnon), Eleanor Dennis (Clytemnestra), Stephanie Wake-Edwards (Cassandra), Robert Murray (Watchman), Clive Bayley (Herald/Old Man)
English National Opera Orchestra, Martyn Brabbins
Awards:
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2025
If anyone can convince us of the worth of this one-act drama of Aeschylus’s tragedy of Agamemnon’s last bloody bath it's Martyn Brabbins, a doughty champion of Brian’s music...All credit to...
Brian: Agamemnon & Symphonies Nos 6 & 12
John Findon (Agamemnon), Eleanor Dennis (Clytemnestra), Stephanie Wake-Edwards (Cassandra), Robert Murray (Watchman), Clive Bayley (Herald/Old Man)
English National Opera Orchestra, Martyn Brabbins
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Awards:
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2025
If anyone can convince us of the worth of this one-act drama of Aeschylus’s tragedy of Agamemnon’s last bloody bath it's Martyn Brabbins, a doughty champion of Brian’s music...All credit to...
About
Martyn Brabbins has long championed the music of Havergal Brian, and this new release—no fewer than two symphonies and an opera complete on a single album—further demonstrates a real commitment to, and profound understanding of, this most original of twentieth-century symphonic voices.
Contents and tracklist
- English National Opera
- Martyn Brabbins
- Recorded: 2023-12-02
- Recording Venue: St Jude-on-the-Hill, Hampstead Garden Suburb, London
- English National Opera
- Martyn Brabbins
- Recorded: 2023-12-02
- Recording Venue: St Jude-on-the-Hill, Hampstead Garden Suburb, London
- Robert Murray (tenor), Eleanor Dennis (soprano), Clive Bayley (bass), John Findon (tenor), Stephanie Wake-Edwards (soprano)
- English National Opera, English National Opera Chorus
- Martyn Brabbins
- Recorded: 2023-12-02
- Recording Venue: St Jude-on-the-Hill, Hampstead Garden Suburb, London
Spotlight on this release
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Martyn Brabbins on The Dream of Gerontius (and Havergal Brian)
5th Feb 2026
The conductor discusses his new recording of Elgar's masterpiece with Huddersfield Choral Society, and reflects on how he became such an enthusiastic ambassador for the music of Havergal Brian (whose 150th birthday fell last week).
Awards and reviews
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Presto Recordings of the YearFinalist 2025
May 2025
If anyone can convince us of the worth of this one-act drama of Aeschylus’s tragedy of Agamemnon’s last bloody bath it's Martyn Brabbins, a doughty champion of Brian’s music...All credit to the tenors John Findon and Robert Murray for finding a way through.
April 2025
Brabbins’s orchestra relish the music’s alternation of drama and lyricism (there is a gorgeous long tune at the [Twelfth] symphony’s heart) and Hyperion’s sound catches the care with which he balances Brian’s idiosyncratic scoring.
