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2 Compact Discs CDD22027

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Recording Engineers
BOB AUGER
STUART SMITH
Recording Producers
ALUN FRANCIS
ANDREW KEENER (Howells, Bliss)
Design
TERRY SHANNON
Executive Producer
EDWARD PERRY
© Hyperion Records Ltd, London, 1997

Duration: 102'01
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Originally released on Hyperion CDA66014 and CDA66044
Front illustration: Greta Bridge by John Sell Cotman (1782-1842)

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Music for Clarinet and Piano

THEA KING clarinet
CLIFFORD BENSON piano
Contents:

    SIR CHARLES VILLIERS STANFORD (1852-1924)
    Sonata for Clarinet and Piano Op 129
  1. Allegro moderato [7'49]
  2. CAOINE Adagio (quasi Fantasia) [5'51]
  3. Allegretto grazioso [6'13]

    HOWARD FERGUSON (b1908)
    Four Short Pieces Op 6

  4. Prelude (Non troppo allegro) [0'52]
  5. Scherzo [0'35]
  6. Pastoral [1'52]
  7. Burlesque (Con spirito) [1'11]

    GERALD FINZI (1901-1956)
    Five Bagatelles Op 23

  8. Prelude [3'23]
  9. Romance [3'40]
  10. Carol [1'52]
  11. Forlana [2'36]
  12. Fughetta [2'16]

    WILLIAM YEATES HURLSTONE (1876-1906)
    Four Characteristic Pieces

  13. Ballade [5'50]
  14. Croon Song [3'02]
  15. Intermezzo [2'29]
  16. Scherzo [3'21]
COMPACT DISC 2
    HERBERT HOWELLS (1892-1983)
    Sonata for clarinet and piano
  1. Con moto, dolce e con tenerezza [10'34]
  2. Allegro, ritmico, con brio [10'27]

    SIR ARTHUR BLISS (1891-1975)

  3. Pastoral [4'26]

    FRANZ REIZENSTEIN (1911-1968)

  4. Arabesques op 47 [3'47]

    ARNOLD COOKE (b1906)
    Sonata in B flat for clarinet and piano

  5. Allegro moderato [5'57]
  6. Scherzando [5'22]
  7. Adagio ma non troppo [6'11]
  8. Molto vivace [3'25]

'Music, its performance, and its recording, of the highest class' (Gramophone)

'The recording is outstandingly truthful. A splendid record' (The Monthly Guide)

'I don't think I have ever heard a more convincing recorded account of the instrument so superbly played here by Thea King' (Hi Fi for Pleasure)

'This set should be on the shelf of every teacher and serious student of the clarinet' (American Record Guide)

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