Symphonies Nos 7 14 23

Dedicated to the memory of Lady
Evelyn Barbirolli, widow of Sir
John Barbirolli, a noted oboist, and
Honorary Fellow of Trinity College
of Music, this disc brings together
three of Alan Hovhaness's most
fascinating scores. His Symphony
No. 7 'Nanga Parvat' depicts the
sublime topography and tiger-like
ferocity of that majestic Kashmiri
mountain. Hovhaness was inspired,
in his own words, by the 'wild
fierceness of volcanic earthquakes
and avalanche-shaken mountains'
when composing his Symphony No.
14 'Ararat', while the bells of the
thousand and one cathedrals of the
ruined Armenian city Ani resound in
the Symphony No. 23.