"Symphony No, 1, Clarinet Concerto : Lloyd-Jones / Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, Plane"

SIR CHARLES VILLIERS STANFORD (1852-1924)
Symphonies Vol. 4

Symphony No. 1 in B flat major
I Larghetto - Allegro vivace
II Scherzo - In Landler Tempo
III Andante tranquillo
IV Allegro molto

Clarinet Concerto Op. 80
I Allegro moderato
II Andante con moto
III Allegro moderato

Robert Plane, clarinet
Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra
David Lloyd-Jones, conductor

Digital Recording: 06/2007

This final volume of the Naxos cycle of the complete Stanford Symphonies features the substantial First Symphony, whose first movement, with its spacious introduction and exposition repeat, is a remarkably broad structure and, at something a little over 18 minutes, must surely be the longest instrumental movement ever written by a British composer until the opening movement of Elgar’s First Symphony some thirty years later. The use of stopped horns is most unusual for a symphony written in the late 1870s. Stanford’s tuneful late romantic Clarinet Concerto has become the most frequently heard and recorded of the composer’s orchestral works. ( NAXOS )