Huw Watkins: In my Craft or Sullen Art Format:MP3 There is another reason that

There is another reason that this release is important to NMC

Two vital orchestral works by this key figure of the celebrated 'Manchester School' of post-war British composers and one of the most influential teachers of composition

ignored by Schoenberg commentators over the years

Recording Engineer/ Producer: IAIN HODGE

William Howard

Huw Watkins: In my Craft or Sullen Art Format:MP3 There is another reason thatThe centrepiece of this disc sets Dylan Thomas's defiant In my craft or sullen art for tenor and string quartet. Huw's brother Paul is soloist in the lyrical Sonata for Cello and Eight Instruments; while there are echoes of Britten and Berkeley in the beautifully wrought Three Auden Songs, sung by tenor Mark Padmore, accompanied by Huw Watkins on piano. Alina Ibragimova excels in the virtuosic Partita for solo violin, which Watkins describes as a