The Clarinotts
The Clarinotts
It’s all fairly inconsequential stuff, but played with impeccable technical mastery, albeit in generally bleached tones, favouring the upper partials…The disc would make a good gift to a young...
The Clarinotts
The Clarinotts
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It’s all fairly inconsequential stuff, but played with impeccable technical mastery, albeit in generally bleached tones, favouring the upper partials…The disc would make a good gift to a young...
About
This ensemble consists of Ernst Ottensamer, a clarinettist in the Vienna Philharmonic, and his two sons Andreas and Daniel. Their aim is to bring the literature of music for the clarinet family closer to the public. They play the basset horn, bass clarinet and E flat clarinet as well as the standard instruments. On this CD, they perform works by Mozart, Hummel, Druschetsky, Prinz, Denisov, Ploy and J Strauss II.
Contents and tracklist
- arr. Rainer Schottstadt
- The Clarinotts
- arr. Rainer Schottstadt
- The Clarinotts
Awards and reviews
December 2017
It’s all fairly inconsequential stuff, but played with impeccable technical mastery, albeit in generally bleached tones, favouring the upper partials…The disc would make a good gift to a young clarinettist as model for technique and encouragement to explore the pleasures of ensemble playing. And it’s an appropriate memorial to Ernst Ottensamer, founder of an impressive ‘royal family of the clarinet’.
October 2017
Yes, it’s an entertaining programme, delivered with warmth and wit. But there’s a bit more than just that going on here…They’re clarinet royalty, with a shared commitment to what they call ‘the Viennese tradition of clarinet playing’…the naturalness of their phrasing, coupled to a sense of light and shade that clearly comes from knowing this music intimately – and understand precisely how to make it speak.
