This collection of works were mostly dedicated to and performed by the great British clarinettist, Frederick Thurston. He did a huge amount to encourage composers of the day to write for his instrument, and in 1952 he was awarded the CBE and the Cobbett Gold Medal for services to chamber music.
June 2012
“In Ireland's Fantasy-Sonata Collins seems almost to bathe in the rhapsodic atmosphere of the free melodic sections...[in the Bax] Collins's tone is glowingly sustained in the first movement and he is superbly accompanied by McHale in Bax's almost orchestrally conceived piano part”
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