Colin Matthews

Composer

Matthews, like Britten, has the gift of creating crisply memorable material …

— Edward Greenfield, The Guardian

British Clarinet Concertos Volume 2

Cover of clarinet concertos CD featuring a portrait of clarinetist Michael Collins
  • Recorded: 2016
  • Record label: Chandos
  • Performers: BBC Symphony Orchestra; Michael Collins (clarinet & conductor);
  • Availability: On general release

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In his second volume of British Clarinet Concertos artist Michael Collins combines the role of soloist with that of conductor of the BBC Symphony Orchestra. The disc includes Benjamin Britten’s Movements for a Clarinet Concerto, assembled by Colin Matthews from sketches Britten made for jazz musician and bandleader Benny Goodman in 1941, together with adaptations of two other scores from the same period.

Also on the disc are pieces by Arnold Cooke, William Mathias and Gerald Finzi.

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