MARISS JANSONS
ANDREAS OTTENSAMER
Live from Paphos,Cyprus, 1 May 2017, directed by Henning Kasten
Concert Promoter: Pafos2017-European Capital of Europe, Georgia Doetzer, George Lazoglou
TV-Producer: Dorothea Diekmann, Evi Papamichael, Yasuko Kobayashi
Producer: Isabel Iturriagagoitia Bueno
Executive Producer: Jan Bremme
Tracklist:
Opening 0:35
Carl Maria von Weber
Overture to the opera Oberon 10:52
Carl Maria von Weber
Concerto for Clarinet and Orchestra No 1 in F minorOp.73
Allegro 8:28
Adagio ma non troppo 6:34
Rondo 7:35
Stephan Koncz
Hungarian Fantasy on Themes by Carl Maria von Weber 9:21
Antonin Dvorák
Symphony No 8 in G Major, Op.88
Allegro con brio 10:55
Adagio 10:56
Allegretto grazioso 6:54
Finale:Allegro ma non troppo 11:50
Johannes Brahms
Hungarian Dance No.5 in G minor 2:55
Credits 1:52
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Andreas Ottensamer, Kammerakademie Potsdam, Emmanuel Pahud, Albrecht Mayer – New Era: Stamitz, Danzi, Mozart (2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:11:55 minutes | 1,32 GB | Genre: Classical
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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.
“It’s fascinating to think that Mannheim inspired so many composers and musicians, and it was the players themselves who made it happen – it gave them the chance to do their own thing. Every aspect of composition, playing, teaching and conducting was concentrated there, and audiences went wild, blown away by the kind of rock-star ensemble that they heard.” Andreas Ottensamer
Ottensamer’s debut album on Decca Classics – the first clarinettist to sign exclusively to the label in its 89 year history.
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Anne Gastinel, Nicholas Angelich, Gil Ottensamer, Andreas Ottensamer, Paavo Järvi, Frankfurt Radio Symphony – Beethoven: Triple Concerto, Op. 56 & Trio, Op. 11 (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 55:06 minutes | 552 MB | Genre: Classical
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The Triple Concerto is recorded here in concert, which is sure to guarantee a bit of spontaneity for a work of great symphonic dimensions – 35 minutes long – which owes as much to chamber music as to concert symphonies. There is still the question of whether it’s better to call in an established trio for the triple soloist part: Anne Gastinel, Gil Shaham and Nicholas Angelich didn’t know each other musically beforehand, and they opted, here again, for spontaneity and stepping out of the routine: which pays off brilliantly, as the orchestra is directed by Paavo Järvi, who can tailor the performances so well. His judicious eye is indispensable to this rather dense work, which tends to move in circles in terms of tonalities. The album closes with the Gassenhauer trio for clarinet (with Andreas Ottensamer), cello and piano (with the same soloists as for the Concerto), recorded in studio. The title Gassenhauer was chosen after the fact, in view of the different themes in the third movement, which came from an opera which was a smash hit in Vienna – and the Viennese slang of the day, a “hit” is called a “Gassenhauer”.
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Andreas Ottensamer – Brahms: The Hungarian Connection (2015) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]
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Andreas Ottensamer – Brahms: The Hungarian Connection (2015)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:01:47 minutes | 1,08 GB | Genre: Classical
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Andreas Ottensamer, himself half-Hungarian, naturally recognizes Brahms’ Clarinet Quintet as “genuinely one of the monuments of the entire clarinet repertoire, a piece that every clarinettist dreams of playing”. The album includes Brahms’ Clarinet Quintet, one of the most seminal works for the instrument – combined with Hungarian dances and waltzes by Brahms, all newly arranged to include additional material from Brahms’ original musical sources, with an authentic folk twist. Brahms is seen as one of the most serious composers of the German school – this bold venture reveals how closely connected his music actually is to the vibrant folk music inspired Hungarian music world.
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Andreas Ottensamer – Blue Hour: Mendelssohn Edition (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 45:02 minutes | 790 MB | Genre: Classical
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Andreas Ottensamer (born 4 April 1989 in Vienna) is an Austrian clarinettist and is one of the principal clarinettists of the Berlin Philharmonic.
Ottensamer commenced his musical studies in 1999 on piano in his hometown and then at the University of Music and Performing Arts, Vienna, on violoncello with Wolfgang Herzer and then from 2003 clarinet with Johann Hindler. Ottensamer is also enrolled as a student at Harvard University in the United States. Ottensamer first gained his orchestral experience as substitute clarinet in the Vienna State Opera and the Vienna Philharmonic and is a former member of the Gustav Mahler Youth Orchestra. In October 2009, he was a fellow of the Orchestra Academy of the Berlin Philharmonic. From July 2010 to February 2011, he was solo clarinettist of the German Symphony Orchestra, Berlin and since March 2011 he fills the position of solo clarinet with the Berlin Philharmonic.
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Andreas Ottensamer – Blue Hour – Weber, Brahms, Mendelssohn (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:01:51 minutes | 1004 MB | Genre: Classical
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Austrian clarinettist Andreas Ottensamer has joined forces with Chinese pianist Yuja Wang to record an album of works by composers of the Romantic era. Blue Hour, set for release on March 8 by Deutsche Grammophon/Universal Music Canada, the country’s leading music company, features some of the jewels of the repertoire including Brahms’s Intermezzo in A major, Mendelssohn’s Songs without Words – arranged for clarinet and piano by Ottensamer – and Weber’s virtuosic Grand Duo concertant. The album reveals Ottensamer to be not just a sensitive and responsive chamber partner, but also a brilliant soloist, as he gives a dazzling performance of Weber’s First Clarinet Concerto, recorded with the Berliner Philharmoniker and Mariss Jansons.
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