Brought together for the first time on one CD, three highly significant works by one of today's leading composers. The Clarinet Concerto, first championed by Gervase de Peyer in a memorable Proms performance, is here receiving its first recording on CD. Autumn Sonata - a bass clarinet concerto (rarely seen in such a prominent setting) - was written for Victoria Soames. This haunting work - inspired by the poetry of Georg Trakl - uses as an under-current the first movement of Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata. The disc is completed by a performance of Musgrave's evocative The Seasons. All three works are conducted by the composer. Press Quote ' Scottish composer Thea Musgrave are usefully gathered on this disc under the composer's own baton......Victoria Soames is a sympathetic advocate rising impressively to its demands' The Times