Portraits: The Clarinet Album | Deutsche Grammophon 4810131

Portraits: The Clarinet Album

Label: Deutsche Grammophon

Cat No: 4810131

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Genre: Orchestral

Release Date: 3rd June 2013

Contents

Artists

Andreas Ottensamer (clarinet)
Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra

Conductor

Yannick Nezet-Seguin

Works

Beach, Amy

Compositions (3) for violin and piano, op.40
» no.2 Berceuse (arr. Stephan Koncz for clarinet and orchestra)

Cimarosa, Domenico

Oboe Concerto in C major (arr. Arthur Benjamin)

Copland, Aaron

Clarinet Concerto

Debussy, Claude

Preludes (12), Book 1
» no.8 La fille aux cheveux de lin (The girl with the flaxen hair) (arr. Stephan Koncz for clarinet and orchestra)

Gershwin, George

Preludes (3) (arr. Stephan Koncz for clarinet and orchestra)

Spohr, Louis

Clarinet Concerto no.1 in C minor, op.26

Artists

Andreas Ottensamer (clarinet)
Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra

Conductor

Yannick Nezet-Seguin

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.

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