Mozart, Schumann & Others: Clarinet Trios

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With peerless clarinet tone from Michael Collins, volatile viola phrasing from Isabelle van Keulen and brightfingered pianism from Michael McHale – three founding members of the recently formed... — BBC Music Magazine, February 2023, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 2nd Dec 2022
Catalogue No: BIS2535
Label: BIS
Length: 68 minutes

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Mozart: Clarinet Trio in E flat major, K498 "Kegelstatt-Trio"

Work length19:50

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Michael Collins (clarinet), Isabelle van Keulen (viola), Michael McHale (piano)
Wigmore Soloists

I. Andante

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II. Menuetto

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III. Allegretto

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Schumann: Märchenerzählungen (4) for Clarinet, Viola & Piano, Op. 132

Work length14:41

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Michael Collins (clarinet), Isabelle van Keulen (viola), Michael McHale (piano)
Wigmore Soloists

I. Lebhaft, nicht zu schnell

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II. Lebhaft und sehr markirt

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III. Ruhiges Tempo, mit zartem Ausdruck

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IV. Lebhaft, sehr markirt

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Excerpt, Bruch: Eight Pieces for clarinet, viola and piano, Op. 83

Work length19:21

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Michael Collins (clarinet), Isabelle van Keulen (viola), Michael McHale (piano)
Wigmore Soloists

No. 5. Rumänische Melodie

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No. 6. Nachtgesang

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No. 7. Allegro vivace, ma non troppo

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No. 8, Moderato

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Stravinsky: L'Histoire du Soldat: Concert Suite

Work length14:23

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Michael Collins (clarinet), Isabelle van Keulen (violin), Michael McHale (piano)
Wigmore Soloists

I. Introduction. Marche du soldat

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II. Marche royale

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III. Petit concert

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IV. Trois danses. Tango - Valse - Ragtime

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V. Danse du diable

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As core members of the ensemble Wigmore Soloists, Michael Collins, Isabelle van Keulen and Michael McHale present four works for clarinet trio composed over a period of some 130 years. Mozart's Kegelstatt Trio was long believed to have been composed during a game of bowling. The writing is reminiscent of a conversation between three friends in which contrasts are not excluded: we hear affection, divergences and even disagreements. This atmosphere of friendly, playful, and sometimes very intimate exchange also pervades Schumann's Märchenerzählungen (Fairy Tales). While it's spirited conviviality might give the impression that this work was the product of idyllic times, it was actually composed during Schumann's last full year of sanity before his final mental collapse in 1854. There is a similar atmosphere of warm intimacy in Max Bruch's Eight Pieces, written in 1910. Four of them are presented here, giving not a single hint of the approaching First World War. Based on a Russian folk tale, Stravinsky's stage work L'Histoire du Soldat may be less good-natured than the preceding works. But the music is wonderfully entertaining, borrowing from various genres, including jazz. The composer's trio version consist of five movements and has deservedly become his most frequently performed chamber composition.

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February 2023

With peerless clarinet tone from Michael Collins, volatile viola phrasing from Isabelle van Keulen and brightfingered pianism from Michael McHale – three founding members of the recently formed Wigmore Soloists – the immaculate reading [of the Kegelstatt] here lacks perhaps only a touch of wistfulness in the more mysterious turns of the second movement trio.

February 2023

Michael Collins’s tone flows like oil, as Mozart himself might have said...The sequence of works is delectable and the performances delivered with all the care and sensitivity you could wish for.

Mozart, Schumann & Others: Clarinet Trios

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