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Unknown Britten

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Label: NMC Recordings

Cat No: NMCD140

Barcode: 5023363014021

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Release Date: 5th October 2009

International Record Review Outstanding Gramophone Editor's Choice

Contents

Artists

Sandrine Piau (soprano)
Michael Collins (clarinet)
Rolf Hind (piano)
Michael Thompson (horn)
Richard Watkins (horn)
Peter Francomb (horn)
Chris Griffiths (horn)
Northern Sinfonia

Conductor

Thomas Zehetmair

Works

Britten, Benjamin

In Memoriam Dennis Brain
Les Illuminations, op.18
Movements (3) for a Clarinet Concerto
Rondo Concertante
Untitled fragment (1930) for strings
Variations (12) for solo piano

Artists

Sandrine Piau (soprano)
Michael Collins (clarinet)
Rolf Hind (piano)
Michael Thompson (horn)
Richard Watkins (horn)
Peter Francomb (horn)
Chris Griffiths (horn)
Northern Sinfonia

Conductor

Thomas Zehetmair

About

The ‘Clarinet Concerto’ was written for jazz star Benny Goodman, but Britten never completed it as the sketches were impounded by US Customs in 1941. It was Britten’s intention to resume work on the piece in 1943 but he never got round to it and so it remained a fragment, not performed until edited by Colin Matthews in 1990.

Britten intended the additional three songs recorded here also setting Rimbaud to be part of Les Illuminations. Sandrine Piau’s love affair with the music of Benjamin Britten blossomed when she was chosen to sing the role of Flora in Britten’s Turn of the Screw at Radio France.

In memoriam Dennis Brain for 4 horns, strings and tubular bells commemorates the great horn player for whom Britten wrote his Serenade for tenor, horn and strings. He died in a car crash in 1957.

Contents:
Les Illuminations Op.18 (1939) for high voice and string orchestra (Orchestrated by Colin Matthews)
Sandrine Piau, soprano
Northern Sinfonia / Thomas Zehetmair

Rondo Concertante (1930) for piano and strings
Rolf Hind, piano

In memoriam Dennis Brain (c.1958) for 4 horns and strings
Michael Thompson, Richard Watkins, Peter Francomb & Chris Griffiths, horns • Northern Sinfonia / Thomas Zehetmair

Untitled Fragment (1930) for strings
Northern Sinfonia / Thomas Zehetmair

6 Variations (1965) for piano solo
Rolf Hind, piano

3 Movements for a Clarinet Concerto (c.1942) for clarinet and strings (Realized by Colin Matthews)
Michael Collins, clarinet • Northern Sinfonia / Thomas Zehetmair

The CD features eight premiere recordings:
• Three additional songs of Les Illuminations
• In memoriam Dennis Brain
• Rondo Concertante
• Elegy for Strings
• Variations for Solo Piano
• The completion of Movements for a Clarinet Concerto


Total timing 78’12

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