Howick/Bbc So/Llewelyn - Paul Patterson, Kenneth Leighton, Gordon Jacob: British Violin Concertos

These three major British concertos span fully 70 years. Kenneth Leighton�s Concerto is a work of tensile urgency, scored with great imagination, and ending in an arch-like Epilogue of impassioned intensity. Written for soloist and string orchestra, the Concerto by Gordon Jacob contains at its heart a threnodic slow movement cast in long, moving paragraphs and accompanied by poetic effects. Written for (and premiered by) the soloist in this recording, Paul Patterson�s Violin Concerto No. 2 (�Serenade�) is rich in high spirits; songlike, wistful and exuberantly sparkling. Clare Howick is a specialist in twentieth-century British music and her recital of British violin music � Elgar, Bridge, Delius, Cyril Scott � was released in September 2017 (8.573790). These three major British concertos span fully 70 years. Kenneth Leighton�s Concerto is a work of tensile urgency, scored with great imagination, and ending in an arch-like Epilogue of impassioned intensity. Written for soloist and string orchestra, the Concerto by Gordon Jacob contains at its heart a threnodic slow movement cast in long, moving paragraphs and accompanied by poetic effects. Written for (and premiered by) the soloist in this recording, Paul Patterson�s Violin Concerto No. 2 (�Serenade�) is rich in high spirits; songlike, wistful and exuberantly sparkling. Clare Howick is a specialist in twentieth-century British music and her recital of British violin music � Elgar, Bridge, Delius, Cyril Scott � was released in September 2017 (8.573790).