Himmel aus Tönen

There are many good pieces of music. And there is Mozart's "Concerto for the Clarinet" with the Adagio. Music with an eternal character. It requires a soloist with such extraordinary sensitivity as the Austrian Daniel Ottensamer.

Performers
Thomas Zehetmair . Conductor
Daniel Ottensamer . Clarinet
Stuttgarter Kammerorchester

Program
Hans Werner Henze
Seconda sonata per archi

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Clarinet Concerto in A major KV 622

Linda Buckley
"Fall approaches" for string orchestra (2012)

Franz Schubert
Symphony No. 5 in B flat major D 485

"The reviewer who has this magnificent concerto in score before him can give all good clarinettists the cheerful certainty that none other than Mozart - only he could have written it." (Allgemeine Musikalische Zeitung 1802, 11 years after Mozart's death)

There are many good pieces of music. And there is Mozart's "Concerto for the Clarinet" with the Adagio. Music with an eternal character. It requires a soloist with such extraordinary sensitivity as that of the Austrian Daniel Ottensamer. The Süddeutsche Zeitung raved about the solo clarinettist of the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, who is also a member of the Philharmonix, the wind ensemble of the Vienna and Berlin Philharmonic Orchestras: "Ottensamer gratefully took up Mozart's steep template and enchanted it with rare tenderness." Chief conductor Thomas Zehetmair and the SKO surround Mozart's Clarinet Concerto with two contemporary masterpieces, namely Henze's sensitive 2nd String Sonata and "Fall approaches", a brightly shimmering string piece by Irish composer Linda Buckley. The 5th Symphony by Franz Schubert is the crowning glory. It showcases the dual talent of the 19-year-old Viennese composer, a deserving heir to Mozart and a sensitive Romantic who discovered previously hidden spheres between major and minor keys.