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November 20 2017

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November 20 2017

ResMusica: Chopin interprété par Finghin Collins

À emporter, CD, Musique de chambre et récital Finghin Collins, pianiste irlandais connu surtout pour avoir remporté le premier prix du Concours international de piano Clara Haskil en 1999, offre un récital varié de pages appartenant à des genres différents et écrites à diverses périodes de la vie de Chopin, proposées ici en respectant la chron...


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November 09 2017

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November 09 2017

La Liberté: Chopin Recital, Finghin Collins

Il a étudié à Genève, a gagné le Concours Clara Haskil. Finghin Collins est aussi connu du public fribourgeois pour s’être plusieurs fois produit en récital et engagé aux côtés de l’Orchestre des jeunes. Après deux sublimes disques Schumann, le pianiste irlandais reste fidèle au label suisse Claves pour graver un stimulant et émouvant récital C...


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October 24 2017

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October 24 2017

Gramophone (UK): Stanford Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No 2, Finghin Collins

Stanford’s answer to the great Russian concerto It is not perhaps surprising that the key, opening flourishes and other episodes in this splendid concerto recall Rachmaninov’s Piano Concerto No 2. Stanford had conducted its British premiere, with the composer as soloist, the year before he completed his own. If the second and third movements do...


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October 24 2017

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October 24 2017

The Cross-Eyed Pianist: Meet the Artist……Finghin Collins, pianist

Who or what inspired you to take up the piano and pursue a career in music?  My family! I am the youngest of four children and when I came along my three elder siblings were all at it! I was dying to get started and at the age of three my eldest sister Mary (aged 13) started to teach me. At age 6 I won a scholarship into the Royal Irish Academy...


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October 24 2017

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October 24 2017

Irish Times: Finghin Collins takes a lap of honour on his 40th birthday

NCH honours pianist by presenting him in solo recital as part of international series Finghin Collins will turn 40 at the end of the month, and the National Concert Hall got its congratulations in early by presenting the pianist in a solo recital as part of its current International Concert Series last Thursday. It’s an unusual honour for the h...


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August 11 2017

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August 11 2017

Pizzicato.lu: Beeindruckender Jungpianist aus Irland - Kevin Jansson

Der im Jahr 2000 geborene irische Pianist Kevin Jansson hat im Februar 2016 den Thierry Scherz-Preis in Gstaad gewonnen, mit dem auch eine Solo-CD verbunden ist. Diese Schallplatte kam dabei zustande. Ravels ‘Miroirs’ machen die erste Hälfte des Programms aus. Kevin Jansson spielt sie insgesamt vielleicht ein wenig zu ‘vorbereitet’ und nicht spo...


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August 08 2017

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August 08 2017

Volkskrant: Charles Villiers Stanford, Finghin Collins

De muziek van de Ier Charles Villiers Stanford (1852-1924) hoor je in Nederland niet vaak, om niet te zeggen nooit. Ten onrechte, zo blijkt bij kennismaking met zijn Tweede pianoconcert en de concertvariaties op Down among the dead men, beide met Finghin Collins als solopianist. Het pianoconcert is geïnspireerd door het werk van Rachmaninov, me...


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May 07 2017

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May 07 2017

Gramophone (UK): Schumann Complete Piano Works, Vol 1, Collins

A young pianist showing an uncanny and moving empathy with Schumann Vol 1 of Finghin Collins’s Schumann cycle is revelatory. In this young Irish pianist we have an artist (and I use the word advisedly) of rare poetic empathy, one with an uncanny and moving capacity to arrive at the still centre, the very heart, of Schumann’s teeming and frenzie...


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March 28 2017

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March 28 2017

Diapason Magazine: Schumann volume 6 par Cédric Pescia

La pochette du Volume VI de l'intégrale de l'oeuvre de Schumann - partagée entre l'Irlandais Finghin Collins (Volumes I et III), l'Italien Francesco Piemontesi (IV) et le Franco-Suisse Cédric Pescia (II, V et VI) - ne dit rien des précédents albums. Mais la première phrase du texte d'introduction nous apprend que la série arrive ici à son terme....


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March 23 2017

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March 23 2017

Music Web International: Charles Villiers STANFORD, by Finghin Collins

The Stanford discography is steadily growing, yet when these performers gave the Second Piano Concerto its belated Proms première in 2008, the response suggested that the London critics still lived back in the dark age when Stanford was merely an Interesting Historical Figure, not a composer that one might seriously perform and listen to. Strang...


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