Portraits: The Clarinet Album
Andreas Ottensamer (clarinet)
Rotterdam Philharmonic, Yannick Nézet-Séguin
Awards:
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Building A Library, January 2022, Featured Recording
a clarinettist of notable suavity...a superior debut disc that, more than displaying the instrument’s scope, proposes it as a stylistic kaleidoscope.
Portraits: The Clarinet Album
Andreas Ottensamer (clarinet)
Rotterdam Philharmonic, Yannick Nézet-Séguin
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Awards:
-
Building A Library, January 2022, Featured Recording
a clarinettist of notable suavity...a superior debut disc that, more than displaying the instrument’s scope, proposes it as a stylistic kaleidoscope.
About
Portraits – The Clarinet Album features concertos by Copland, Spohr and Cimarosa, plus arrangements of short pieces. Andreas Ottensamer is accompanied on the recording by the Rotterdam Philharmonic under Yannick Nézet-Séguin, a rising star in the Deutsche Grammophon firmament.
Portraits – The Clarinet Album takes us from the early-Romantic intensity of Spohr to the jazz inflections of Copland, and from the operatic gestures of Cimarosa to the poised serenity of Debussy. It includes a prelude by Gershwin, Debussy’s evocative La Fille aux cheveux de lin, and a Berceuse by Amy Beach, the first great female American composer.
In 2009 Ottensamer interrupted his liberal arts studies at Harvard University to become a scholar of the Orchestra Academy of the Berliner Philharmoniker. He is now principal clarinettist of the orchestra and is also a part-time model.
Contents and tracklist
- Andreas Ottensamer (clarinet)
- Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra
- Yannick Nézet-Séguin
- Recorded: 2012-06-30
- Recording Venue: De Doelen, Rotterdam
- Andreas Ottensamer (clarinet)
- Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra
- Yannick Nézet-Séguin
- Recorded: 2012-06-30
- Recording Venue: De Doelen, Rotterdam
- Andreas Ottensamer (clarinet)
- Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra
- Yannick Nézet-Séguin
- Recorded: 2012-06-30
- Recording Venue: De Doelen, Rotterdam
- Andreas Ottensamer (clarinet)
- Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra
- Yannick Nézet-Séguin
- Recorded: 2012-06-30
- Recording Venue: De Doelen, Rotterdam
- Andreas Ottensamer (clarinet)
- Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra
- Yannick Nézet-Séguin
- Recorded: 2012-06-30
- Recording Venue: De Doelen, Rotterdam
- Andreas Ottensamer (clarinet)
- Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra
- Yannick Nézet-Séguin
- Recorded: 2012-06-30
- Recording Venue: De Doelen, Rotterdam
Awards and reviews
30th June 2013
a clarinettist of notable suavity...a superior debut disc that, more than displaying the instrument’s scope, proposes it as a stylistic kaleidoscope.