IDAGIO | Copland & Bernstein: Clarinet Sonatas - Dankworth: Suite for Emma & Picture of Jeannie 747313224074

Featuring

Emma Johnson
John Lenehan
Johnny Dankworth
Leonard Bernstein
Aaron Copland

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Composer's Artistic Vision

Aaron Copland, a composer on this album, helped forge an American voice in classical music and established an infrastructure to protect American musicians' rights.

Composer's Artistic Vision

Sir John Dankworth, a leading figure in jazz, believed in doing away with musical barriers and programming all types of music together.

Performer Biography

Emma Johnson was the first woman to be made an honorary fellow of Pembroke College, Cambridge University, and received an MBE for services to music.

Performer Biography

Emma Johnson, the clarinetist on this album, launched her career by winning the BBC Young Musician of the Year Competition at age seventeen.

Composition History

Leonard Bernstein's Clarinet Sonata (1942) dates from the very beginning of his career, when he was unsure which of his many talents would lead him into professional music.

Performer Biography

John Lenehan, the pianist on this album, is also a composer and has written and arranged for notable musicians like Julian Lloyd Webber and Emma Johnson.

Composer Biography

Sir John Dankworth, a composer featured on this album, studied at the Royal Academy of Music where he was the first pupil to study both saxophone and clarinet.