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Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert: Michael Collins and Michael McHale

Clarinettist Michael Collins and pianist Michael McHale, live from London's Wigmore Hall

Michael Collins and Michael McHale

BBC Radio 3 - Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert, Michael Collins and Michael McHale

Live from Wigmore Hall, a clarinet recital featuring works by Widor, Bax and Horovitz.

Clarinettist Michael Collins and pianist Michael McHale perform a programme of works by Widor, Bax, Muczynski and Horovitz.

Regular collaborators clarinettist Michael Collins and pianist Michael McHale perform a programme that centres around a pair of sonatas by two British composers: Arnold Bax and Joseph Horovitz. In between, they play a work by the Polish-American composer Robert Muczynski. Despite his fascination with mechanical clocks, Muczynski said that this had no bearing on his conception of Time Pieces, but that the work was meant to be imbued with an ‘awareness of the fact that everything exists in time: history, our lives, and, in a special way, music’. The recital begins with a brilliant showpiece by Widor, a composer best known for his organ works, not least his famous Toccata, often heard at weddings. 

Live from London's Wigmore Hall
Presented by Andrew McGregor

Widor: Introduction and Rondo
Bax: Clarinet Sonata
Muczynski: Time Pieces
Horovitz: Sonatina for clarinet and piano

Michael Collins (clarinet)
Michael McHale (piano)

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