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Clarinet Fantasies: 20th-Century British Works for Clarinet & Piano
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Label: Prima Facie
Cat No: PFCD078
Barcode: 0712396065258
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 1
Genre: Chamber
Release Date: 9th February 2018
Wilson easily brings out the four contrasting characters and projects the light-hearted nature with technical assurance... The Horovitz was fun and playful with a lovely middle movement, while the Ireland had lyrical moments and good virtuosic control.
At the centre of this programme are two works which deserve a larger audience. 'Barlow Dale: Four Characteristic Pieces' (1977) take their inspiration from cats in a feline-detective book by Ruth Siverns. They were written by Martin Butler at the age of seventeen and receive their premiere recording here with the composer at the piano. This quirky and energetic jazz-inspired soundworld has an immediate appeal and works superbly alongside Joseph Horovitz's finely-wrought Sonatina.
Inspired by the fictional adventures of a feline detective – Barlow Dale, something of a fusion of Sherlock Holmes, Poirot and Dr Finlay – the pieces depict the eponymous hero, a slow-witted Police Inspector, the elegant (Siamese) secretary Miss Honeyflower, and dastardly villain Asiam Rex. It is all light-hearted fun but how nice to see such a trifle still acknowledged and performed by its creator in this premiere recording four decades later.
