Barnaby Robson, Fiona Harris, Simon Chamberlain & Rebecca Chambers - 1 2 3 11 (2021) [Official Digital Download 24/48]

Clarinettist Barnaby Robson performs a rich programme of 20th-century and contemporary music for clarinet and piano, including world-premiere recordings. The release opens with Barnaby Robson’s collaboration with BAFTA-winning sound designer Martin Cantwell: a recording of Steve Reich’s intricate New York Counterpoint, which involves eleven pre-recorded clarinet lines. Herbert Howells is celebrated for his choral music but his instrumental works are less famous; with pianist Fiona Harris, Robson performs the 1946 version of Howells’s Clarinet Sonata, never recorded before. Three further world-premiere recordings follow: Robson’s arrangement for clarinet, viola and piano of George Fenton’s Snow Leopard – music originally composed for the BBC’s Planet Earth – for which Robson is joined by Simon Chamberlain (piano) and Rebecca Chambers (viola); Graham Fitkin’s mercurial Cusp for solo clarinet; and the witty Red Herring Blues for clarinet and piano by baritone-composer Roderick Williams. The recording is rounded off with two 20th-century French works: Poulenc’s Sonata for two clarinets (Robson has recorded both parts) and Debussy’s dazzling Première Rhapsodie for clarinet and piano.

Tracklist:
1. Barnaby Robson – New York Counterpoint for Clarinet & Tape: I. Fast (04:57)
2. Barnaby Robson – New York Counterpoint for Clarinet & Tape: II. Slow (02:40)
3. Barnaby Robson – New York Counterpoint for Clarinet & Tape: III. Fast (03:36)
4. Barnaby Robson & Fiona Harris – Clarinet Sonata: I. Con moto, dolce e con tenerezza (1946 Version) (11:15)
5. Barnaby Robson & Fiona Harris – Clarinet Sonata: II. Allegro, ritmico, con brio (1946 Version) (06:43)
6. Barnaby Robson & Fiona Harris – Clarinet Sonata: II. Allegro, ritmico, con brio (1946 Revised Version) (11:12)
7. Barnaby Robson, Simon Chamberlain & Rebecca Chambers – The Snow Leopard (From "Planet Earth") [Arr. B. Robson for Clarinet, Viola & Piano] (04:14)
8. Barnaby Robson – Cusp for Solo Clarinet (04:58)
9. Barnaby Robson & Fiona Harris – Red Herring Blues (03:39)
10. Barnaby Robson – Sonata for 2 Clarinets, FP 7a: I. Presto (01:40)
11. Barnaby Robson – Sonata for 2 Clarinets, FP 7a: II. Andante (02:23)
12. Barnaby Robson – Sonata for 2 Clarinets, FP 7a: III. Vif (02:00)
13. Barnaby Robson & Fiona Harris – Première rhapsodie, L. 116 (08:25)


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