Alun Hoddinott – Promontory of Dreams – Concerto for Clarinet and String Orchestra
– Concerto Grosse No 1
– Tymhorau (Seasons)
Robert Plane, clarinet | Welsh Chamber Orchestra | Anthony Hose, conductor | Jeremy Huw Williams, baritone | Liam Duffy, horn
(Metronome MET CD 1073)
Reviews:
‘his performance showed empathy with the music especially in the melancholy slow movement which plumbed emotional depths rare in Hoddinott’s other music. The final Burlesca, with its unusual and seemingly self-contradictory tempo marking Allegro piacevole, was like a fleeting will-of-the-wisp under Plane’s perky fingers.’ Seen and Heard International July 2014