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Michael Collins clarinet; Wu Qian piano
Cooke, Finzi, Martinů, Milhaud and Tailleferre
Part of the Wigmore Hall Autumn and Spring Concerts - 2025-2026
Add to my Calendar 09-03-2026 13:00 09-03-2026 15:00 36 Michael Collins clarinet; Wu Qian piano 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. Wigmore Hall, London DD/MM/YYYYDetails
Wigmore Hall
36 Wigmore St
Marylebone
London
W1U 2BP
England
Programme
Gerald Finzi – Five Bagatelles, Op.23
Bohuslav Martinů – Sonatina for clarinet and piano
Darius Milhaud – Duo concertante Op. 351
Germaine Tailleferre – Arabesque
Arnold Cooke – Sonata in B flat for clarinet and piano
Performers
Michael Collins – clarinet
Wu Qian – piano
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Programme Note
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.
