Barely a month ago, I wrote Probably my favourite [tune in the live recording] is the one that starts after about 47 minutes in the unedited video and is the last piece before the break. This starts out as another tone poem with harp arpeggios in 3/4 time; after a few minutes there is a break for the clarinet and then the piece continues in 4/4. A theme is played then there's time for a wild bass clarinet solo before the ensemble comes back in for a stomping finale.
Well, this piece has now been released from Jasmine's upcoming second album and can be found here. Whilst the first half - the tone poem with harp arpeggios - is even better than the live performance, at the moment I'm finding the second half disappointing. The bass clarinet break isn't as good, the sax solo is mannered as opposed to wild, and the ending isn't as stomping as the live version.
Is this the usual case of loving the first version of a song than one hears, where all the other versions pale in comparison, even though the first heard version is not the first recorded version? Maybe in time I'll learn to love the studio version; the first half is more atmospheric, whereas the second half doesn't take off.
Incidentally, the credits on the YouTube video from which the live version comes are wrong. Although Arran Kent plays flute and bass clarinet on the studio recordings and is credited on the video, Jasmine says that the player is George [something, possibly Segman].
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