Musgrave: Clarinet Concerto, The Seasons & Autumn Sonata

Brought together for the first time on one CD, three highly significant works by one of today's leading composers. The Clarinet Concerto, first championed by Gervase de Peyer in a memorable Proms performance, is here receiving its first recording on CD. Autumn Sonata - a bass clarinet concerto (rarely seen in such a prominent setting) - was written for Victoria Soames. This haunting work - inspired by the poetry of Georg Trakl - uses as an under-current the first movement of Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata. The disc is completed by a performance of Musgrave's evocative The Seasons. All three works are conducted by the composer. Press Quote ' Scottish composer Thea Musgrave are usefully gathered on this disc under the composer's own baton......Victoria Soames is a sympathetic advocate rising impressively to its demands' The Times