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Jack Gallagher - Sym 2 | Quiet Reflections / ClassicalSource review

This is my first encounter with (Gallagher's) music and I want to hear more. Certainly this release graces Naxos's American Classics series with distinction. Symphony No. 2 seems remarkably spontaneous, free-flowing from the pen of a quick-thinking and assured creator. There is an attractive fluidity to this music.  The ideas are inventive and thoroughly well developed. The varied and brilliant scoring is deftly impressive, keeping the ear entranced. The music. . . reach(es) its aspiration in pulsating and thrilling terms.  With the LSO in top form and with a notable rapport with JoAnn Falletta . . . , recorded sound that is vivid, and with the composer in attendance, this can be counted as definitive performances of both works.  READ THE FULL ClassicalSource REVIEW