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A response from Heritagequay.org:

"Thank you for your enquiry about music held at Heritage Quay.  I can confirm that we hold a score for Timothy Moore's concerto for clarinet and strings (BMC/SC/64174). It appears that the movement titles correspond with the recording link you provided: I Allegro (listed in the score as 5.5 minutes), II Adagio (listed as 3 minutes) and III Rondo: Allegro (listed as 5 ¾ minutes). From a brief listen, the opening bars do seem to correspond too.

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I am not sure if I will take it any further as it was more a matter of curiosity than anything else and it seems to me that this "Myaskovsky" concerto is highly likely a hitherto unrecorded concerto by Timothy Moore.

Just as an update I got a response but it was to re-direct me to a different outfit that I was advised hold the actual physical materials (recordings, scores etc) rather than just the digital info that BMC hold. I have re-posed the question there. I am hopeful I will actually get a response even if not the actual answer to the query.

There is a Timothy Moore recording of his Brass Quintet here: https://www.editions-bim.com/composers/timothy-moore and if you compare it's movements 3 and 4 to the 2nd and 3rd of the concerto, I feel there are definitely some similarities........but maybe it's just me.

The Concerto for Clarinet and Strings is referenced here:
https://britishmusiccollection.org.uk/score/concerto-clarinet-and-strings-4

Yes I have just sent an email to the British Music Collection to see if I can get an answer. I guess I doubt they will spend the time on a bit of idle curiosity, but there is always a chance that they have interest as it might add a recording to their archives that they were unaware of.

I forgot to add that the British Music Collection website also indicates that the Timothy Moore clarinet concerto is approximately 15 minutes long, which is not far off the 17 minutes of this recording.

Hello, I don't know if any of you read this thread anymore but I am hoping that you do. I am new here and only signed up to give an input on this question. I happened to discover this recording today whilst listening to some Miaskovsky and thought that a clarinet concerto by him seems a bit strange. On googling the recording I came upon this thread. So I was not wrong there is indeed a mystery. However after a little bit of thought I have come upon a potential answer, but I have no way of verifying it and perhaps someone here may be in a position to do so.
But interestingly someone here mentioned a likeness to Hindemith, which would tie in to the information that I have found. I personally thought the music sounded English.
I decided to ignore all the obvious information given on this clarinet concerto and focus purely on the rather bizarre additional piece of information, namely "Moove.T". I have discovered there was an English composer named Timothy Moore who did indeed write a "Concerto for Clarinet and Strings".
There is a biography given on Britishmusiccollection.org.uk which interestingly says the following:

"A renewed contact with a Russian-born schoolfriend Diana Miller, led to his organising visits to Britain for the Soviet Composers Union and for pupils from the Gnesin Music School (among them the young Yevgeny Kissin). This resulted in the re-establishment of relations between the Composers Union and the British Composers Guild after an interval of some 30 years. It also led to many performances and broadcasts of Moore's music in the Soviet Union and widespread recognition there.
His style of composition was individual and difficult to pigeonhole, owing something to Hindemith, the English madrigalists and Bach, as well as to jazz."

The Jazz comment certainly ties in with the third movement Rondo, and the article also mentions the similarities to Hindemith. What say you all? Can anyone verify?