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These charming miniatures sounding overparted snatched from domestic service and pressed into public performance.

Pierre Genisson parachutes in as clarinet soloist to join Montreal's Orchestre Métropolitain, led by Berlin Phil Principal Clarinettist, Andreas Ottensamer.

Almost a case of bringing coals to Newcastle: two works by Brahms, played by a Swiss orchestra and with an Austrian soloist in the composer's home town.

Lorenzo Viotti conducts a programme of familiar favourites including a speedy Prokofiev “Classical” Symphony. 

Capable of being defiant when needed, Kopatchinskaja impresses with the seemingly infinite timbral variety of her pianissimos.

Sparks fly at the Queen's Hall, but it's the gentler arrangements that really impress. 

Wagner and hard-driven Brahms counter a silky smooth performance of Weber's First Clarinet Concerto.

The Viennese clarinettist joined the Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra and Carlos Miguel Prieto in a programme of Copland, Weber and Shostakovich.

Ottensamer shared the stage at Wigmore Hall with pianist José Gallardo and together they took it by storm with the erupting scalar passages in the first movement of Weber’s Grand Duo concertant.

Thrilling performances of Sibelius and Bartók at the Philharmonie overshadow lightweight Weber from Andreas Ottensamer.

Yannick Nézet-Séguin conducted his hometown Orchestre Métropolitain in a concert Hollywood couldn’t have scripted better nor the Cirque du Soleil made more fantastic. 

Kiril Karabits brings out the climaxes, in a solid performance of Bruckner's Seventh Symphony in Basingstoke, couple with Mozart's Clarinet Concerto.

Aaron Copland was one of the most important American composers of the last century. The inclusion of his Clarinet Concerto and Dvořák’s Symphony no. 9 made this program one inspired by the US. The theme of this year’s Rotterdam Philharmonic Gergiev Festival, Sea & You, of course suits this beautifully – after all, we hear the skyscrapers coming up from the sea in Dvořák’s symphony.