Andreas Ottensamer: New Era
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DANZI / MOZART / STAMITZ
Andreas Ottensamer: New Era
Andreas Ottensamer (clarinet) / Kammerakademie Potsdam, Albrecht Mayer
[ Decca / CD ]
Release Date: Saturday 1 July 2017
Ottensamer presents a dazzling selection of the clarinet's early repertoire from 18th Century Mannheim, with works by J. and C.P. Stamitz, Mozart and Danzi, together with the Kammerakademie Potsdam.
Featuring duets with Albrecht Mayer and Emmanuel Pahud - two of the great wind soloists of our time and Ottensamer's friends and colleagues at the Berliner Philharmoniker. It promises to be the chamber recording of the year.
The "Mannheim school" was a melting pot of "revolutionary experimentation" - musicians from all over Europe coming together to develop a new explosive and colourful sound - forming the orchestra as we know it today.
The Mannheim Orchestra was also the first to adopt the recently developed clarinet into the orchestra, and here Mozart heard the instrument for the first time.
"Ottensamer plays with admirable virtuosity throughout" BBC Music
"…it would be hard to imagine classier performances than these. With his velvet, sensuous tone and minute control of dynamics, Ottensamer surely has few peers among today's clarinettists…A perfect disc for any clarinet lover…" Gramophone
Tracks:
Danzi:
Concertino for clarinet, bassoon and orchestra B flat major, Op. 47
transcribed for clarinet & cor anglais
Mozart:
Se viver non degg'io (original version) (from Mitridate, Re di Ponto)
arr. for basset clarinet & flute
Emmanuel Pahud (flute)
Batti, batti, o bel Masetto (from Don Giovanni)
arr. for basset horn & flute
Emmanuel Pahud (flute)
Stamitz, C:
Clarinet Concerto No. 7 in E flat major
Stamitz, J:
Clarinet Concerto in B flat Major
