AND LAST BUT NOT LEAST
Grant Moon has a rummage down the back of the Prog sofa for the ones that nearly got away…
Clive Mitten has given the (virtual) orchestral treatment to his former group Twelfth Night (on Suite Cryptique) and his favourite prog bands (Suite Sixteen), but Transcriptions (twelfthnight. info) is his first pure classical album. Over two discs he interprets the work of some major composers, in an innovative compositional style. The grander pieces (Vaughan Williams’ Fantasia On A Theme By Thomas Tallis) show the limits of even the best sample software, but smaller moments (Bach’s Concerto For 2 Harpsichords And Strings) are more convincing, and they all showcase Mitten’s musicality, intelligence and focus.