From Russia: music for clarinet and piano Ian Scott, Royal Ballet Sinfonia & Robin White

• Modest Mussorgsky (1839 - 1881): Sorochinsky Fair:
• 1 Mussorgsky: Sorochinsky Fair: Introduction 04:29
• 2 Mussorgsky: Sorochinsky Fair: Gopak 01:41
• Nikolai Rimsky-korsakov (1844 - 1908):
• 3 Rimsky-korsakov: Clarinet Concerto 08:04
• Robin White (b. 1945): Russian Suite:
• 4 White: Russian Suite: I 04:04
• 5 White: Russian Suite: Ii 03:51
• 6 White: Russian Suite: Iii 03:20
• 7 White: Russian Suite: Iv 04:14
• 8 White: Russian Suite: V 02:40
• Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840 - 1893):
• 9 Tchaikovsky: Andante Cantabile from String Quartet No. 1 in D Major, Op.11 07:04
• 10 Tchaikovsky: Humoresque, Op. 10 No. 2 03:09
• 11 Tchaikovsky: Six Romances Op. 6 - No. 6 None but the Lonely Heart 02:46
• 12 Tchaikovsky: Album for the Young, Op. 39 - Valse in E-Flat Major 01:44
• Vittorio Monti (1868 - 1922):
• 13 Monti: Czardas 04:41
• Total Runtime 51:47

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Pure enjoyment is provided by this delightful new recording of popular Russian music arranged for clarinet and orchestra by Robin White. From Rimsky-Korsakov’s Clarinet Concerto – originally scored for military band – to the Andante Cantabile from Tchaikovsky’s first string quartet (a staple for arrangers for decades) this is a beautifully played album by one of Britain’s busiest orchestras. An interloper (but a welcome one) from Italy (but of Eastern European style) provides a superb finale.

Ian Scott is the principal clarinet of the Royal Ballet Sinfonia and has been guest principal with several top London orchestras. He has previously made premiere recordings of Clarinet Concertos for ASV and Dutton. Arranger and conductor Robin White has enjoyed a very busy and varied career; his first recording (1992, Chandos) was very popular and he has made other recordings of light music for several labels. He has managed his own orchestra and choir and appeared, with his choir, in a pivotal episode of the British TV drama series EastEnders. As an arranger of light music, his work has been broadcast by BBC orchestras many times.

Ian Scott, clarinet
Royal Ballet Sinfonia
Robin White, conductor

Ian Scott
is the Principal Clarinet of the Royal Ballet Sinfonia, The Orchestra of St.John's, The Rambert Dance Company and a regular Guest Principal with the London Philharmonic Orchestra, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, BBC Symphony Orchestra and the Orchestra of the Royal Opera House Covent Garden.

He was born in Perth, Scotland where he began lessons with Charles Maynes. He studied at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama with Henry Morrison and at the University of Arizona with John Denman winning major prizes at both establishments. He was then invited by the conductor Claudio Scimone to become Principal Clarinet with the Gulbenkian Orchestra in Lisbon, Portugal where he played for six years.

He has appeared as soloist with I Solisti Veneti and the Orchestra da Camera di Padova in Italy, The Gulbenkian Orchestra in Portugal and on tour to the Far East, and with numerous orchestras in Britain, including The Royal Ballet Sinfonia, London Musici, The City of Oxford Orchestra, The Northern Sinfonia and The Guildford Philharmonic.

He is a founder member of London's leading clarinet sextet, The Clarinet Section which records for the label Clarinet Classics. His recording for ASV White Line of British Clarinet Concertos with the Royal Ballet Sinfonia conducted by Gavin Sutherland was released in April 2003. His latest recording for the Dutton Epoch label is called English Clarinet Concertos and includes world premiere recordings of the concertos by Leighton Lucas and Humphrey Procter-Gregg with Barry Wordsworth conducting The Royal Ballet Sinfonia.

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