This is the second in a series of albums devoted to British clarinet sonatas; you might not have been aware that there was enough good material there to justify even one, but clarinetist Michael Collins is a superb player who has been making a strong case for the whole repertory. The music on this program is generally lighter in tone than that on volume one, if that's to your taste. It opens with an absolutely delightful find: the Sonatina for clarinet and piano, Op. 29, of Malcolm Arnold is a jaunty work whose mixture of 4 ...
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This is the second in a series of albums devoted to British clarinet sonatas; you might not have been aware that there was enough good material there to justify even one, but clarinetist Michael Collins is a superb player who has been making a strong case for the whole repertory. The music on this program is generally lighter in tone than that on volume one, if that's to your taste. It opens with an absolutely delightful find: the Sonatina for clarinet and piano, Op. 29, of Malcolm Arnold is a jaunty work whose mixture of 4/4 and 6/8 in the first movement seems suggested by popular styles but keeps them tantalizingly at arm's length. The work's slow movement is a fine example of Arnold's lyrical gift. Nothing else quite reaches the level of the Arnold, but any of the pieces is enjoyable on its own merits. The Sonata for clarinet and piano by Arnold Cooke is an essay in Hindemith's style with a good feel for Hindemith's way with instrumentally idiomatic writing, while the Sonatina by Joseph Horovitz is...
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