John Kinsella (b. 1932) is the most important Irish symphonist since C. V. Stanford. His Fifth Symphony is an impassioned setting of humanist poetry by three Irish poets killed in the 1916 Uprising. The Tenth is animated by driving power and energy and impresses with the clarity of its textures. These live recordings were made at the time of the work’s first performances. The booklet has an extensive commentary, complete with music examples, by Séamas de Barra, who’s writing a book on Kinsella’s symphonies, and a commentary on the origins of the music by John Kinsella himself.