Ireland; Stanford; Bliss; Bax; Howells: Clarinet Sonatas – review

Collins/McHale(Chandos)Michael Collins begins at the beginning in his new Chandos series devoted to British clarinet sonatas. All of the works here were written for one or other of the two great British clarinettists of the first half of the 20th century, Charles Draper and his pupil Frederick Thurston. Draper gave the first performance of Charles Villiers Stanford's Sonata in 1918, a year after he had introduced Arthur Bliss's little Pastoral; Thurston premiered the Bax, Ireland and Howells son...

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