Collaborations and Concertos
Donald Macleod surveys some of Alice Mary Smith’s compositional collaborations, including with the famed clarinettist Henry Lazarus.
Donald Macleod surveys some of Alice Mary Smith’s compositional collaborations, including with the famed clarinettist Henry Lazarus. With guests Ian Graham-Jones and Leanne Langley, Macleod explores Smith’s popular Clarinet Sonata, the first ever written by a British composer, which might have also been fully adapted by Smith into a concerto. They also discuss Smith composing an operetta and church music, and how the publishing industry at the time were keen to promote choral music more than orchestral works.
Impromptu in D minor
Hiroaki Takenouchi, piano
Overture ‘Vivien’
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Emilie Godden, conductor
By the Waters of Babylon
Emma Tring, soprano
Katherine Nicholson, alto
Benjamin Durrant, tenor
Jamie W. Hall, bass
BBC Singers
Richard Pearce, organ
Gabriella Teychenne, conductor
Andante for Clarinet and Orchestra
Angela Malsbury, clarinet
London Mozart Players
Howard Shelley, conductor
String Quartet ‘Tubal-Cain’ (excerpt)
Kleio Quartet
Produced by Luke Whitlock for BBC Audio Wales & West
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Broadcast
- Wed 29 Jul 202616:00BBC Radio 3
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