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In the same year he arranged some of the music into a five-part suite for clarinet and piano (or harp), and later also for clarinet, harp and strings. The version here recorded is an adaptation of the latter by Jan Willem Nelleke.
There are five short movements which conjure up the garden at different times of the year. The 'Prelude' opens like a gentle waking up in the morning, followed by wonderfully flowing melodies in pastoral character. In 'Spring' Paul indicated that ‘the player is to mimic the chattering and singing of a bird’. The central movement, 'Mists', is ‘to be played with a lingering autumnal feeling’ and it paints the mood beautifully. 'Exotica' has a distinctive oriental flavour with its use of pentatonics. After these contrasting moods, 'Summer' leads us back to the lyricism of the opening movement.
from notes by John Whibley © 2023