Sarah Williamson - Copland: Clarinet Concerto & Appalachian Spring - Finzi: Clarinet Concerto & Romance for Strings (2014)

Soon after Copland composed his Third Symphony, jazz clarinettist Benny Goodman, who was keen to become acceptable to the music establishment commissioned him, in 1947, to write a clarinet concerto. The concerto has strong jazz elements and as part of his quest to find a suitable 20th century language for his compositions, Copland had deliberately explored jazz rhythms and colours in some of his compositions of the 1920s, feeling that his work up to that point had been too European.

Sarah Williamson – Clarinet
The Orchestra Of The Swan
David Curtis – Conductor