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Servais: Duos For Cello And Violin
If you’ve got a musical sweet tooth and a taste for the most outlandish of virtuoso effects, then look no further. Adrien François Servais (1807-66) was the leading cellist of his time, a player and composer who took his inspiration from that ne plus ultra of virtuosos, Nicolò Paganini. This disc collects six duos Servais wrote in partnership with violinist-composers, one each with Henry Vieuxtemps and Joseph Ghys, and four with Hubert Léonard. The pieces, all essentially fantasies or sets of variations on celebrated themes (including God Save the King ), are crammed with as many notes as the teams of composers could manage. The spirit is one of indefatigable excess, and the playing and recording are as riotously over-the-top as the pieces themselves. The Irish Times
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The Swiss label Claves has struck gold with Finghin Collins, the Irish pianist who won the Clara Haskil International Piano Competition in 1999. Vol 1 was glowingly reviewed in these pages (A/06) and, while Vol 2 was given to another pianist (Cédric Pescia; 3/07), Claves has returned to Collins for Vol 3, a selection of works mostly from the late 1830s, in performances that are likely to be received equally favourably. Collins plays Schumann in a refreshingly direct, unfussy manner, with a warm-hearted tone full of telling touches and refined rubato. Listen, for instance, to the way he subtly shapes the melody of the first of the "Three Little Pieces" of Bunte Blätter (the whole set is a joy, not least the concluding "Quick March") and sings his way over the energetic semiquaver accompaniment in the Intermezzo from Faschingsschwank aus Wien, a preferable performance to the hard-driven and flinty Piotr Anderszewski in his recent Carnegie Hall recital (8/09).
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