This world premiere recording of British composer Nigel Clarke's symphony for violin and orchestra The Prophecies of Merlin is inspired by the 12th-century text de gestis Britonum by Geoffrey of Monmouth, and it casts the soloist as the maddened Merlin, in a score brimming with rhythmic drive and bravura orchestration. Clarke's music can aso be heard on 8.570429 (Samurai Black Fire The Miraculous Violin) and 8.574097 (Mysteries of the Horizon).