Caprices and Laments: Clarinet Concertos by Nielsen, Copland & MacMillan

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Caprices and Laments: Clarinet Concertos by Nielsen, Copland & MacMillanSUMMARY TRACK LISTING REVIEWS INFO The benevolent shadow of Mozart meets a strain of emotional turbulence in Carl Nielsens unforgettable, at times inscrutable Clarinet Concerto his last major orchestral work, completed three years before his death in 1931. Dating from two decades later, Aaron Coplands concerto for the same instrument similarly bridges stylistic and expressive contrasts: composed with the genre crossing expertise of Benny Goodman in

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psalms and canticles

providing the perfect cushion for the voices to sit on

Tackling themes of love

restless strings

Aberdeen-born John McLeod’s music bears all the hallmarks of exuberant colour and precisely imagined fantasy that his early associations with Lennox Berkeley and Witold Lutosławski would lead one to expect

Alfred Desenclos remains an almost unknown figure in twentieth-century music

A major statement by a composer still in his mid-twenties

"Hill has devised a fascinating sequence to contextualise this first recording of an 11-minute virtuoso piece he discovered in Messiaen’s posthumous papers

"From the early 17th century

all of which are colourful and vivid

"McCleery elicits performances that glow with golden purity and soul

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