Brahms, Johannes - Clarinet Trio - Collins, Michael (clarinet)

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Paul Watkins and Ian Brown here give well-modulated performances of the two Brahms cello sonatas. Cello and piano are finely balanced in timbre, spontaneously complementary in their reactions to the music and effective in combining intricacy of texture with broader aspects of lyricism. This is nowhere more evident than in the finale of the E minor Sonata, where the oscillation between toughness and tenderness is dealt with in a way that preserves the music's essential momentum but at the same time leaves space for reflection. The passionate opening of the F major Sonata launches a performance that, as in the E minor, conveys a very real sense of the music s emotional make-up, ebbing and flowing as its contours demand and finding a spectrum of dynamic shading that is entirely apt. The disc would be well worth having for these two works alone, but in between them there is an equally beguiling performance, with Michael Collins, of the Clarinet Trio. Collins, Watkins and Brown play as a proper, instinctive ensemble, well tailored in phrasing, unanimous in their attack and architectural finesse, and mellifluous in their shaping of Brahms's melodic and harmonic richness. **** --Telegraph, July'14