Four Pieces may be performed complete as a four-movement work. Each piece may also be performed separately or a selection together in any combination.1. Leap Commissioned by NJO: Dutch Orchestra and Ensemble Academy.. First performed on 13 August 2010 at Radio Kootwijk, Apeldoorn, Netherlands, by Anna voor de Wind, young artist in residence.2. Cradle SongWritten for Mark Simpson. First performed by Mark Simpson (clarinet) and Vikingur Olafsson (piano) at Holywell Music Room, Oxford on 2 December 2009.3. Carnac Written for Jon Carnac. First performed on 7 January 2014 in the Purcell Room, London, by Max Welford (clarinet) and Katherine Tinker (piano).4. Falling ApartWritten for Jon Carnac. First performed on 15 February 2013 at Regent Hall, London, by Max Welford (clarinet) and Katherine Tinker (piano). / Clarinette Et Piano

Edward Gregson completed Tributes in the summer of 2010. Lasting some 16 minutes, there are five pieces in the set, each dedicated to a different composer and a different clarinettist (with whom Gregson had long musical associations). Each of the dedicatee composers wrote wonderfully for the Clarinet and, as a tribute to them, Gregson tried to invade, indeed imitate, their stylistic worlds in these pieces. They are as follows: To Francis Poulenc (for Emma Johnson) - a rather dreamy toccata, lyrical in feel, but interrupted by typically quirky and disruptive rhythmic episodes. To Gerald Finzi (for John Bradbury) - slow and lyrical with long melodic arches. To Igor Stravinsky (for Linda Merrick) - asymmetric rhythms dominate, with wide leaps in the solo line and bitonal harmony on the Piano. To Olivier Messiaen (for Nicholas Cox) - based on the ravishing slow movement for Cello in his Quartet for the End of Time, a seamless melody is woven around ever-changing repeated chords on the Piano. To Béla Bartók (for Michael Collins) - the most virtuoso of the set - after a slow introduction, a swirling folk-like dance unfolds, mirroring Bartok's penchant for simple modal shapes and ostinati rhythms. / Clarinette Et Piano