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The Virtuoso Clarinet, promises the title of this album, and few could argue that it does not deliver: the blazing runs of the Italian pieces here stretch the instrument to its limits, and clarinetist Michael Collins doesn't miss a step. Look no farther than the variations in Alamiro Giampieri's Il carnevale di Venezia, a thoroughly retrospective work that was composed in 1948 but looks back to the traveling virtuoso days of the 19th century. The other Italian work, Donato Lovreglio's Fantasia da concerto su motivi de "La traviata" de G. Verdi, Op. 45, represents a different strain of 19th century music, the popular operatic transcription. Both of those are unusual works, and perhaps an even greater feat than Collins' sheer technical mastery is the digging he undertook to put together an entertaining program that showcases not only virtuosity, but virtuosity of various kinds. Some of these pieces are known to wind students, but they've rarely been heard together as they are here, and a work like André Messager's Solo de concours (Competition Solo) gains from being surrounded by works that exploit the clarinet in a different way. Most of the music is originally for clarinet (the arrangement of Milhaud's Scaramouche, Op. 165b, for clarinet and piano is the composer's own), and the two transcriptions, of Gershwin's Three Preludes and Rachmaninov's Vocalise, each add something to the clarinet vocabulary on display. With suitably circumspect accompaniment from Piers Lane, superb engineering from Chandos, and informative booklet notes (in English, German, and French), this is a recital of instrumental fireworks that anyone might enjoy.
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Piers Lane, Piano, MainArtist - Michael Collins, Clarinet, MainArtist - Alamiro Giampieri, Composer
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Piers Lane, Piano, MainArtist - Michael Collins, Clarinet, MainArtist - ANDRE MESSAGER, Composer
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Scaramouche, op. 165b (Darius Milhaud)
Piers Lane, Piano, MainArtist - Darius Milhaud, Composer - Michael Collins, Clarinet, MainArtist
2010 Chandos Records 2010 Chandos Records
Piers Lane, Piano, MainArtist - Darius Milhaud, Composer - Michael Collins, Clarinet, MainArtist
2010 Chandos Records 2010 Chandos Records
Piers Lane, Piano, MainArtist - Darius Milhaud, Composer - Michael Collins, Clarinet, MainArtist
2010 Chandos Records 2010 Chandos Records
Piers Lane, Piano, MainArtist - Michael Collins, Clarinet, MainArtist - Donato Lovreglio, Composer
2010 Chandos Records 2010 Chandos Records
Three Preludes (George Gershwin)
George Gershwin, Composer - Piers Lane, Piano, MainArtist - Michael Collins, Clarinet, MainArtist
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George Gershwin, Composer - Piers Lane, Piano, MainArtist - Michael Collins, Clarinet, MainArtist
2010 Chandos Records 2010 Chandos Records
George Gershwin, Composer - Piers Lane, Piano, MainArtist - Michael Collins, Clarinet, MainArtist
2010 Chandos Records 2010 Chandos Records
Sergei Rachmaninoff, Composer - Piers Lane, Piano, MainArtist - Michael Collins, Clarinet, MainArtist - S. Rachmaninov, Arranger
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Grand Duo concertant, Op. 48, J 204 (Carl Maria von Weber)
Piers Lane, Piano, MainArtist - Carl Maria Von Weber, Composer - Michael Collins, Clarinet, MainArtist
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Piers Lane, Piano, MainArtist - Carl Maria Von Weber, Composer - Michael Collins, Clarinet, MainArtist
2010 Chandos Records 2010 Chandos Records
Piers Lane, Piano, MainArtist - Carl Maria Von Weber, Composer - Michael Collins, Clarinet, MainArtist
2010 Chandos Records 2010 Chandos Records
Piers Lane, Piano, MainArtist - Michael Collins, Clarinet, MainArtist - Simon Milton, Composer
2010 Chandos Records 2010 Chandos Records
Album review
The Virtuoso Clarinet, promises the title of this album, and few could argue that it does not deliver: the blazing runs of the Italian pieces here stretch the instrument to its limits, and clarinetist Michael Collins doesn't miss a step. Look no farther than the variations in Alamiro Giampieri's Il carnevale di Venezia, a thoroughly retrospective work that was composed in 1948 but looks back to the traveling virtuoso days of the 19th century. The other Italian work, Donato Lovreglio's Fantasia da concerto su motivi de "La traviata" de G. Verdi, Op. 45, represents a different strain of 19th century music, the popular operatic transcription. Both of those are unusual works, and perhaps an even greater feat than Collins' sheer technical mastery is the digging he undertook to put together an entertaining program that showcases not only virtuosity, but virtuosity of various kinds. Some of these pieces are known to wind students, but they've rarely been heard together as they are here, and a work like André Messager's Solo de concours (Competition Solo) gains from being surrounded by works that exploit the clarinet in a different way. Most of the music is originally for clarinet (the arrangement of Milhaud's Scaramouche, Op. 165b, for clarinet and piano is the composer's own), and the two transcriptions, of Gershwin's Three Preludes and Rachmaninov's Vocalise, each add something to the clarinet vocabulary on display. With suitably circumspect accompaniment from Piers Lane, superb engineering from Chandos, and informative booklet notes (in English, German, and French), this is a recital of instrumental fireworks that anyone might enjoy.
© TiVo
About the album
- 1 disc(s) - 14 track(s)
- Total length: 01:13:43
- 1 Digital booklet
- Main artists: Michael Collins Piers Lane
- Composer: Various Composers
- Label: Chandos
- Genre: Classical Chamber Music
2010 Chandos Records 2010 Chandos Records
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