Andreas Ottensamer: Portraits - The Clarinet Album Music Clip

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Mercury Classics/Deutsche Grammophon is delighted to release the debut album of Austrian clarinettist Andreas Ottensamer, the first ever solo clarinettist to sign an exclusive agreement with the Yellow Label. 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.

Andreas Ottensamer says of the choice of repertoire: "This is a personal choice of pieces where I feel the clarinet's full expressive range is portrayed. It goes beyond the standard repertoire, certainly with the arrangements, but while the three concertos form the framework, all the music is linked by similar moods."

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