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British Clarinet Sonatas Vol.1
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Label: Chandos
Cat No: CHAN10704
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 1
Genre: Chamber
Release Date: 27th February 2012
Contents
Works
Clarinet Sonata in D majorPastoral for clarinet and piano
Clarinet Sonata
Fantasy-Sonata for clarinet and piano
Clarinet Sonata, op.129
Artists
Michael Collins (clarinet)Michael McHale (piano)
Works
Clarinet Sonata in D majorPastoral for clarinet and piano
Clarinet Sonata
Fantasy-Sonata for clarinet and piano
Clarinet Sonata, op.129
Artists
Michael Collins (clarinet)Michael McHale (piano)
About
Stanford is perhaps best known for his larger-scale works, such as his symphonies and the Clarinet Concerto, but he also wrote much delightful chamber music. The Clarinet Sonata is a superb example of the composer’s contributions to this genre, the work displaying distinct echoes of Brahms, before concluding in hushed tranquillity.
Stanford was a Professor of Music at Cambridge and Professor of Composition at the Royal College of Music, simultaneously, for nearly forty years. To list those who studied with him reads like a roll-call of British composers of the first half of the twentieth century, and this disc features the sonatas of two of his students: John Ireland, whose works are closely affiliated with French impressionism, and Howells, whose Clarinet Sonata is dedicated to Frederick Thurston. In his day, Thurston taught many prominent clarinettists, including the soloist on this disc, Michael Collins.
Also on this disc is one of the earliest surviving works by Sir Arthur Bliss who burst onto the British musical scene in the 1920s, writing music inspired by Stravinsky, Ravel and jazz – music that rebelled against the conservative values represented by Stanford. His Pastoral, however, is an early work, and pre-dates these stylistic extremes.
Sir Arnold Bax described himself as ‘a brazen romantic’, and the Clarinet Sonata recorded here is influenced by Wagner, Richard Strauss and Debussy, and by Irish and Celtic landscapes and literature.
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