On Monday 9th March, Michael Collins performs a recital at the Wigmore Hall with pianist Wu Qian with music by Cooke, Finzi, Martinů, Milhaud and Tailleferre. Continental connections run through the programme. It opens with Gerald Finzi’s quintessentially English Bagatelles, before embracing the Sonatina by Martinů, written in post-war New York yet infused with the vitality of pre-war Paris, and music by two members of Les Six. The programme ends with the lyrical Clarinet Sonata by Arnold Cooke, a Cambridge-educated Yorkshireman who studied with Paul Hindemith in Berlin in the 1920s.
www.wigmore-hall.org.uk/whats-on/202603091300
The concert will be broadcast live on BBC Radio 3
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002s3nj
Ahead of that, Michael Collins and the Wigmore Soloists head to Ireland for two concerts this weekend.
5th March:
Royal Irish Academy of Music:
www.riam.ie/whats-on/wigmore-soloists-wigmore-series-dublin
6th March
Music for Galway:
musicforgalway.ie/event/wigmore-soloists
PROGRAMME
Weber: Introduction, Theme and Variations for Clarinet Quintet
Mozart: Clarinet Quintet in A major, K581
Brahms: Clarinet Quintet in B minor, Op. 115
📸 – Monica S Jakubowska