Klarinet Archive - Posting 000074.txt from 1994/10

From: James Langdell <jamesc@-----.COM>
Subj: BBC Music Mag has clarinet CD
Date: Sat, 8 Oct 1994 15:28:45 -0400

The latest issue of the BBC Music Magazine, which is packaged with
a CD or tape of classical music each month, has an all-clarinet&piano
collection this time around (October 1994). Jonathan Cohler
is playing both Brahms sonatas, along with the Vaughan Williams
"Six Studies in English Folksong" and Milhaud's "Duo Concertant."

The notes on this recording correct a wrong impression I had
about the Vaughan Williams work. According to this, the
short movements ARE each based on a specific folksong.
I had thought these pieces were the result of Vaughan Williams
trying to create original melodies with the character of
collected melodies.

Here's the titles attributed to each movement:

1) "Lovely on the water"
2) "Spurn Point"
3) "Van Dieman's Land"
4) "She borrowed some of her mother's gold"
5) "The Lady and the Dragoon"
6) "As I walked over London Bridge"

Does anyone know a source of more background on these pieces
from 1926? I'll have to look for the original songs as well.

P.S. No, I haven't had a chance to listen to this CD yet.

--James Langdell jamesc@-----.com
Sun Microsystems Menlo Park, Calif.