New edition of this enigmatic, single-movement work for full orchestra lasting 13 minutes and dating from the early-1930s. In his preface, Gerard McBurney comments that, “Despite the music’s modernist surface, the Chant symphonique’s ‘three closely integrated movements’ correspond rather neatly to a traditional sonata-form exposition, development and recapitulation. There is even an overall tonality of sorts – D major. But ‘parts’, ‘moods’, keys and cadences are all subjected in this unusual wor...