The CD of the Month for April 2019 features the clarinetist Andreas Ottensamer, who plays with the Berlin Philharmonic.
This is a somewhat unusual yet creative recording which features the Clarinet Concerto by Carl Maria von Weber, and also several shorter extracts of Romantic works for clarinet and piano played with Yuja Wang.
Included are the following plus much more:
Brahms: Intermezzi, Op. 118
- Andreas Ottensamer (clarinet), Yuja Wang (piano)
- Recording Venue: Meistersaal, Berlin
2. Intermezzo in A Major. Andante teneramente (Arr. for Clarinet and Piano by Popov)
Weber: Clarinet Concerto No. 1 in F minor, Op. 73
- Berliner Philharmoniker
- Mariss Jansons
- Andreas Ottensamer (clarinet)
- Recording Venue: Philharmonie, Berlin
Andreas Ottensamer was born in 1989 in Vienna. He comes from an Austro-Hungarian family of musicians and was drawn to music early, receiving his first piano lessons when he was four. At the age of ten he began studying cello at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna, and he switched to the clarinet in 2003.
Here is Mr. Ottensamer in the Wever concerto number 1:
