I. Closing In

Williams: Escapades, for alto saxophone and orchestra. Derived from the composer’s score for the film Catch Me If You Can, set in the 1960s, and Williams has said about it that 'it seemed to me that I might evoke the atmosphere of that time by writing a sort of impressionistic memoir of the progressive jazz movement that was then so popular'.
Classics Today, outstanding: 'Splendid'; Gramophone: Editor's Choice: 'A terrific calling-card from an orchestra only now perhaps truly earning the reputation it deserves'; Music Web International: Recording of the Month.