Arnold Bax – Clarinet Sonatas
– Piano Trio
– Trio in One Movement
Robert Plane, clarinet | Gould Piano Trio
(Naxos 8.557698)
Final Shortlist Gramophone Awards (Chamber Music) 2006
‘The performances are excellent, and Robert Plane is responsive to the shifting moods of the mature sonata…a programme to intrigue all Bax enthusiasts’
BBC Music Magazine
‘Robert Plane’s irreproachably alert and stylish account with Benjamin Frith leaves a delightlful impression. Plane’s timbre could hardly be more alluring and he strikes up a tangible rapport with Frith. Enthusiasts can rest assured that these admirably agile and idiomatic performers give Bax’s youthful inspiration every chance to shine; indeed, it’s impossible to imagine a more convincing account of the Trio’
Gramophone