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

Barnaby Robson, Fiona Harris, Simon Chamberlain, Rebecca Chambers – 1 2 3 11 (2021)
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Clarinettist Barnaby Robson performs a rich program 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 eight pre-recorded clarinet lines (the forces of which are referenced in the album’s title.) 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 and Rebecca Chambers; 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:

01. Barnaby Robson, Fiona Harris, Simon Chamberlain, Rebecca Chambers – Reich: New York Counterpoint (Version for Amplified Clarinet & Tape): I. Fast (04:57)
02. Barnaby Robson, Fiona Harris, Simon Chamberlain, Rebecca Chambers – Reich: New York Counterpoint (Version for Amplified Clarinet & Tape): II. Slow (02:40)
03. Barnaby Robson, Fiona Harris, Simon Chamberlain, Rebecca Chambers – Reich: New York Counterpoint (Version for Amplified Clarinet & Tape): III. Fast (03:36)
04. Barnaby Robson, Fiona Harris, Simon Chamberlain, Rebecca Chambers – Howells: Clarinet Sonata: I. Con moto, dolce e con tenerezza (1946 Version) (11:15)
05. Barnaby Robson, Fiona Harris, Simon Chamberlain, Rebecca Chambers – Howells: Clarinet Sonata: II. Allegro, ritmico, con brio (1946 Version) (06:43)
06. Barnaby Robson, Fiona Harris, Simon Chamberlain, Rebecca Chambers – Howells: Clarinet Sonata: II. Allegro, ritmico, con brio (Extended Version) (11:12)
07. Barnaby Robson, Fiona Harris, Simon Chamberlain, Rebecca Chambers – Fenton: The Snow Leopard (From “Planet Earth”) [Arr. B. Robson for Clarinet, Viola & Piano] (04:14)
08. Barnaby Robson, Fiona Harris, Simon Chamberlain, Rebecca Chambers – Fitkin: Cusp for Solo Clarinet (04:58)
09. Barnaby Robson, Fiona Harris, Simon Chamberlain, Rebecca Chambers – Williams: Red Herring Blues (03:39)
10. Barnaby Robson, Fiona Harris, Simon Chamberlain, Rebecca Chambers – Poulenc: Sonata for 2 Clarinets, FP 7a: I. Presto (01:40)
11. Barnaby Robson, Fiona Harris, Simon Chamberlain, Rebecca Chambers – Poulenc: Sonata for 2 Clarinets, FP 7a: II. Andante (02:23)
12. Barnaby Robson, Fiona Harris, Simon Chamberlain, Rebecca Chambers – Poulenc: Sonata for 2 Clarinets, FP 7a: III. Vif (02:00)
13. Barnaby Robson, Fiona Harris, Simon Chamberlain, Rebecca Chambers – Debussy: Première rhapsodie, L. 116 (08:25)

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