For this 2013 release on Chandos, clarinetist Michael Collins and the Swedish Chamber Orchestra present three works of varying degrees of familiarity. Easily the best known and most ingratiating is the Clarinet Concerto in A major, K. 662, of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, the work that opens the program and gives Collins the best opportunity to demonstrate his polished technique and feeling for an elegant line. For many listeners, this will be regarded as the album's high point, and it truly is a beautiful rendition of one of ...
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For this 2013 release on Chandos, clarinetist Michael Collins and the Swedish Chamber Orchestra present three works of varying degrees of familiarity. Easily the best known and most ingratiating is the Clarinet Concerto in A major, K. 662, of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, the work that opens the program and gives Collins the best opportunity to demonstrate his polished technique and feeling for an elegant line. For many listeners, this will be regarded as the album's high point, and it truly is a beautiful rendition of one of Mozart's most sublime late compositions. Next is Aaron Copland's Concerto for clarinet and string orchestra with harp and piano, a piece in the Americana vein from the middle of the 20th century that Collins plays with elegiac tenderness in the first movement and spry playfulness in the second. Last up is the premiere recording of Elena Kats-Chernin's Ornamental Air for basset clarinet and orchestra, a contemporary concerto that shows off the instrument's virtuoso possibilities against...
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Add this copy of Mozart/ Copland/ Kats-Chernin: Works for Clarinet & to cart. $35.58, new condition, Sold by newtownvideo rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from huntingdon valley, PA, UNITED STATES, published 2013 by Chandos.
