Brahms: Intermezzi, Op. 118
Work length 5:48
Andreas Ottensamer (clarinet), Yuja Wang (piano)
Recorded: 2018-08-25
Recording Venue: Meistersaal, Berlin
2. Intermezzo in A Major. Andante teneramente (Arr. Popov for Clarinet and Piano)
Weber: Clarinet Concerto No. 1 in F minor, Op. 73
Work length 20:04
Andreas Ottensamer (clarinet)
Berliner Philharmoniker
Mariss Jansons
Recorded: 2017-04-29
Recording Venue: Philharmonie, Berlin
1. Allegro
2. Adagio ma non troppo
3. Rondo
Excerpt, Mendelssohn: Songs without Words, Book 7 (6), Op. 85
Work length 1:52
Andreas Ottensamer (clarinet), Yuja Wang (piano)
Recorded: 2018-08-25
Recording Venue: Meistersaal, Berlin
No. 6 Allegretto con moto (Arr. Ottensamer for Clarinet and Piano)
Track length 1:52
Excerpt, Mendelssohn: Songs without Words, Book 8 (6), Op. 102
Andreas Ottensamer (clarinet), Yuja Wang (piano)
Recorded: 2018-08-25
Recording Venue: Meistersaal, Berlin
No. 1 Andante un poco agitato (Arr. Ottensamer for Clarinet and Piano )
Track length 2:49
Excerpt, Brahms: Lieder (5), Op. 105
Work length 2:09
Andreas Ottensamer (clarinet), Yuja Wang (piano)
Recorded: 2018-08-25
Recording Venue: Meistersaal, Berlin
1. Wie Melodien zieht es mir (Transcr. for Clarinet and Piano)
Track length 2:09
Excerpt, Mendelssohn: Songs without Words, Book 2 (6), Op. 30
Work length 2:31
Andreas Ottensamer (clarinet), Yuja Wang (piano)
Recorded: 2018-08-25
Recording Venue: Meistersaal, Berlin
No. 4 Agitato e con fuoco (Arr. Ottensamer for Clarinet and Piano)
Track length 2:31
Excerpt, Mendelssohn: Songs without Words, Book 6 (6), Op. 67
Work length 2:25
Andreas Ottensamer (clarinet), Yuja Wang (piano)
Recorded: 2018-08-25
Recording Venue: Meistersaal, Berlin
No. 3 Andante tranquillo (Arr. Ottensamer for Clarinet and Piano)
Track length 2:25
Weber: Grand Duo Concertant for clarinet and piano, Op. 48
Work length 16:10
Andreas Ottensamer (clarinet), Yuja Wang (piano)
Recorded: 2018-08-25
Recording Venue: Meistersaal, Berlin
1. Allegro con fuoco
2. Andante con moto
3. Rondo. Allegro
Excerpt, Mendelssohn: Songs without Words, Book 2 (6), Op. 30
Work length 3:08
Andreas Ottensamer (clarinet), Yuja Wang (piano)
Recorded: 2018-08-25
Recording Venue: Meistersaal, Berlin
No. 6 Allegretto tranquillo "Venetianisches Gondellied" (Arr. Ottensamer for Clarinet and Piano)
Track length 3:08
Excerpt, Mendelssohn: Songs without Words, Book 6 (6), Op. 67
Work length 2:15
Andreas Ottensamer (clarinet), Yuja Wang (piano)
Recorded: 2018-08-25
Recording Venue: Meistersaal, Berlin
No. 2 Allegro leggiero (Arr. Ottensamer for Clarinet and Piano)
Track length 2:15
Excerpt, Mendelssohn: Songs without Words, Book 7 (6), Op. 85
Work length 2:36
Andreas Ottensamer (clarinet), Yuja Wang (piano)
Recorded: 2018-08-25
Recording Venue: Meistersaal, Berlin
No. 4 Andante sostenuto (Arr. Ottensamer for Clarinet and Piano)
Track length 2:36
On Blue Hour, star clarinettist Andreas Ottensamer and virtuoso pianist Yuja Wang devote themselves to romantic music by Brahms, Weber and Mendelssohn. Atmospherically corresponding with the eponymous "Blue Hour", that short period of time between sunset and nightfall, Blue Hour presents compositions of beguiling singability and sound images of yearning intimacy.
The centerpiece of the album is Weber's Clarinet Concerto No. 1, with Mariss Jansons on the podium of the Berlin Philharmonic, the orchestra with which Ottensamer serves as principal clarinetist. In addition, there are some of Mendelssohn's "Songs without Words" which, originally composed for solo piano, appear here in an arrangement for clarinet and piano; Andreas Ottensamer himself has rearranged the compositions, and the result captivates in the dialogic interplay with undreamed-of lyrical urgency. The album repertoire is completed by Weber's explosive Grand Duo Concertant as well as two velvety-melancholic compositions by Johannes Brahms, his Intermezzo in A major and "Wie Melodien zieht es mir" op. 105.
An album of quiet beauty for morning and evening twilight hours.