REVIEWS
"....The brave control and rounded touch of the Irish pianist Finghin Collins in the hunting theme of the first movement, and the warmth and thoughtful depth of the Adagio, showed the unusually high standard of the youth artist.....He enthused in the Liszt, with technical brilliance and stylishly-tasteful feeling in the arioso passages....."
Frankfurter Allgemeine, July 1994
"....Finghin Collins, in his interpretation of Mozart's Sonata in D major KV 576, forfeited pure virtuosity and with phenomenal transparency showed the contrapuntal texture of the melodic lines......"
Wiesbadener Tagblatt, July 1994
"He gave a remarkably assured and stylish performance with a sensitive feeling for the varying moods of the work. He is such a complete musician now..."
Ian Fox, The Sunday Tribune, July 1994
"...his healthily headstrong performance of Tchaikovsky's First Piano Concerto. Here his youthful ardency was tempered by a fine musical reckoning that delivered not only the excitement of the risks being taken but also a magisterial quality not to be taken for granted in one so young."
Michael Dervan, The Irish Times, January 1994
