Hanson: Symphonies Nos 4 and 5, etc – review

Seattle SO/SchwarzNaxosHoward Hanson (1896-1981) is probably best remembered as one of the US's most important music educators – he was head of the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, NY, for 40 years. But he was a prolific composer, too, with an output that included seven symphonies. All were unashamedly post-Romantic in style and the two here, part of Gerard Schwarz's fine Hanson cycle with the Seattle Symphony, are couched in a language somewhere between Sibelius and Rachmaninov. Hans...

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