Bliss - Pastoral for Clarinet and Piano

Collins and McHale make a convincing case for these attractive scores. One senses that Collins is a sensitive musician. He certainly has impressive breath control and produces an attractive... — MusicWeb International, June 2012 More…

Music, its performance, and its recording, of the highest class — Gramophone Magazine More…

Prefaced by the sinuously lovely Pastoral of Arthur Bliss, John Ireland’s always engrossing Fantasy-Sonata, written for the legendary Frederick Thurston, makes for an apt conclusion to a very... — Fanfare, January/February 2020 More…

John Bradbury, accompanied by James Cryer, shows clearly why these eloquent miniatures have become so popular among clarinettists. — David Smith, Presto Music, October 2014 More…