Collaborations and Concertos

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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