Recording Paraphrase: a 'social occasion'?

Collaboration is usually associated with the co-presence of those involved; but in this Intervention Emily Payne discusses a more complex and convoluted process extending over forty years, and involving different performers. Payne’s account of Antony Pay’s 2013 recording of Alexander Goehr’s Paraphrase for solo clarinet, premiered by Alan Hacker in 1969, reveals a ‘back story’ that casts new light on the network of distributed relationships that lies behind this unusual collaborative project.