Michael Collins
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Spohr - Clarinet Concertos Nos. 3 & 4
RecommendedMichael Collins (clarinet)
Swedish Chamber Orchestra, Robin O’Neill
Michael Collins repeats the success of his disc of Nos 1 and 2 with elegantly phrased melodies, immaculate passagework and wondrously even trills. The Swedish Chamber Orchestra and Robin O'Neill... —
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Building a Library, November 2009, Highly Recommended
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The four canonical pieces need no puffs from me and, like everything else on the disc, are played superbly...Ogawa is both self-effacing when required, and unfailingly prompt and sympathetic... —
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Presto Editor's Choice, May 2021
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Gramophone Magazine, September 2021, Editor's Choice
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Spohr - Clarinet Concertos Nos. 1 & 2
Michael Collins (clarinet)
Swedish Chamber Orchestra, Robin O'Neill
…the first two of his four concertos for the clarinettist Johann Simon Hermstedt… well worth hearing: they’re imaginatively constructed and full of graceful melody, as well as being true virtuoso... —
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Michael Collins thrills and charms in these characterful concertos, which deserve to be as well known as those by Mozart and Weber. —
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Gramophone Magazine, June 2018, Recording of the Month
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2019, Finalist - Concerto
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Unknown Britten
RecommendedSandrine Piau (soprano), Rolf Hind (piano), Michael Thompson, Richard Watkins, Peter Francomb & Chris Griffiths (horns), Michael Collins (clarinet)
Northern Sinfonia, Thomas Zehetmair
Britten completed but didn't orchestrate the songs - 'Phrase', 'Aube' and 'À une raison'; Matthews matches them finely to the style of Illuminations. While the cycle is often associated with... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 28th September 2009
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Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2009, Disc of the Month
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Special offer. British Clarinet Concertos, Vol. 1
Michael Collins (clarinet & conductor)
BBC Symphony Orchestra
a superb showcase for Michael Collins's talents...I doubt if I've ever hear a finer version of Finzi's 1949 Concerto. The rapt, elegiac intensity of the performance of this works' slow movement,... —
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Special offer. British Music for Clarinet and Piano
Michael Collins (clarinet), Michael McHale (piano)
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Schubert's Four Seasons
Carolyn Sampson (soprano), Joseph Middleton (piano), Michael Collins (clarinet)
Sampson is much admired as a vocal stylist and the voice remains fresh and direct with a tonal clarity that is often only heard in an untrained artist...Middleton is a sturdy companion as spring... —
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Carter, E: Clarinet Concerto, etc.
RecommendedMichael Collins (clarinet)
London Sinfonietta & BBC Symphony Orchestra, Oliver Knussen
Michael Collins dazzles in this fizzing 1996 concerto with Oliver Knussen. —
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Gramophone Awards, 2000, Winner - Contemporary
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Brahms called Muhlfeld 'a master of his beautiful instrument', an epithet that could be extended to Collins who, with McHale, offers joyous performances of these lyrical but unsurprisingly cogent... —
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Gramophone Magazine, March 2015, Editor's Choice
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