John McCabe: Symphonies 2 & 3 and Cello Concerto album review – writing of enormous scope and colour

BBCSSO/Woods/Wallfisch Signum The late pianist and composer deserves a wider audience for the edgy, lucid soundworld of his compositions John McCabe , who died in 2015, made some important recordings of other people’s music – he championed Carl Nielsen, and his survey of the complete Haydn piano sonatas has held its place in the Decca catalogue for half a century – but when it comes to his own works there are still gaps to be filled. Alongside the Symphony No 2, completed in 1971, the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra and the conductor Kenneth Woods here supply the overdue premiere recordings of

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