Michael Collins
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With the eminent Brahms interpreter Stephen Hough, Collins brings special musical insights to these two late works. Notably, they triumphantly solve the interpretative conundrums posed by some... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, February 2022, Editor's Choice
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Presto Editor's Choice, January 2022
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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. — More…
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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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Shakespeare Songs
RecommendedIan Bostridge (tenor), Antonio Pappano (piano), Elizabeth Kenny (lute), Adam Walker (flute), Lawrence Power (viola), Michael Collins (clarinet)
Five songs from Finzi’s incomparable Let us Garlands Bring see the tenor’s head voice floating sympathetically through the melismatic vowels and ever-shifting metres of Finzi’s most sensitive... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, October 2016, Editor's Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2016
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ECHO Klassik Awards, 2017, Winner
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Grammy Awards, 59th Awards (2016), Best Classical Solo Vocal Album
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Mozart, Schumann & Others: Clarinet Trios Michael Collins (clarinet), Isabelle van Keulen (viola, violin), Michael McHale (piano)
Wigmore Soloists
With peerless clarinet tone from Michael Collins, volatile viola phrasing from Isabelle van Keulen and brightfingered pianism from Michael McHale – three founding members of the recently formed... — More…
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Lutosławski: Orchestral Works 4
Michael Collins (clarinet), Tasmin Little (violin)
BBC Symphony Orchestra, Edward Gardner
[Little] finds the soft-edged energy of the Partita and traces a broad melodic arc in its central Largo. All the performers show their awareness of the work's indebtedness to Baroque gesture. — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, May 2013, Editor's Choice
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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... — More…
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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. 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... — More…
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Building a Library, November 2009, Highly Recommended
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Malcolm Arnold: Clarinet Concerto No. 1 and other works
Michael Collins (clarinet), BBC Philharmonic, Rumon Gamba
Mostly recorded in 2019, the performances f ind Rumon Gamba, the BBC Philharmonic and the engineering team on top form, shaping and colouring these motley scores with a winning mixture of panache... — More…
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