All of his music, even a dark, slow work such as the First Symphony, features a striking level of tension. He's also been lucky in that his music has received a good deal of attention on disc. Both the First Symphony and Iscariot have been recorded previously, the former by Zinman on Nonesuch (later Louisville First Edition), the latter by Marin Alsop on RCA. However, both of those discs seem to have vanished, at least for now, and so it's particularly nice to see excellent new recordings available from a label that stands by its product over the long term. The First Symphony, nominally cast as an adagio lasting nearly half an hour and