Artists
- Michael Collinsclarinet
- Wu Qianpiano
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Michael Collins
Image credit: © Benjamin Ealovega
Cooke, Finzi, Martinů, Milhaud and Tailleferre
Michael Collins clarinet; Wu Qian piano
- Date
- Mon 09 Mar 2026, 1.00pm
- Tickets
- £18 (concessions £16)
- Duration
This concert will be approximately 1 hour in duration, without an interval
- Availability
Ticket bookings are subject to a £4.00 booking fee. This fee covers the whole booking and is not per ticket
Programme
- Gerald Finzi1901-1956
- 5 Bagatelles Op. 23
- Bohuslav Martinů1890-1959
- Sonatina for clarinet and piano
- Darius Milhaud1892-1974
- Duo concertante Op. 351
- Germaine Tailleferre1892-1983
- Arabesque
- Arnold Cooke1906-2005
- Sonata in B flat for clarinet and piano
Overview
Continental connections run through Michael Collins’s recital. He 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.
