Richard Flury: Orchestral Music Vol.6 – BBC Symphony Orchestra

The Swiss composer Richard Flury (1896–1967) completed the last of his five symphonies in 1956, when its unashamedly melodic, tonal style – with elements absorbed from Bruckner, Richard Strauss, Joseph Marx and other such late Romantics – made it a conscious rebellion against the modernist trends of the time. Flury, moreover, was an instinctive nature-painter, and the Swiss landscape that meant so much to him can be sensed almost as readily in supposedly abstract works such as this symphony as in those – often quasi-symphonic, like the suite also heard here – that play explicit homage to the woods and valleys in which he grew up.