Filmmusikalische Klassik? - Das WKO in München

By David Renke, 12 December 2016

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Reviewed at Prinzregententheater, Munich on 11 December 2016

Rota, Concerto for string orchestra

Mozart, Clarinet Concerto in A major, K622

Mozart, Symphony no. 41 in C major, "Jupiter”, K551

Andreas Ottensamer, Clarinet

Wuerttemberg Chamber Orchestra

Ruben Gazarian, Conductor

Young and brilliant

Hedy Mühleck, 16th April

In collaboration with the Württembergisches Kammerorchester and the University of Music Stuttgart, Heilbronn Theater created a production whose young protagonists knock the audience off their seats.

****1

Dazzling Mendelssohn in Amsterdam

David Pinedo, 16th July

In an excellent performance, two Dutch masters wow their audience with Mendelssohn's romanticism in a concerto not often performed, with a German orchestra barely playing back-up.

****1

Young and brilliant

Hedy Mühleck, 16th April

In collaboration with the Württembergisches Kammerorchester and the University of Music Stuttgart, Heilbronn Theater created a production whose young protagonists knock the audience off their seats.

****1

Sublime Mozart from Ottensamer and the Schumann Quartett at Klosters

Roy Westbrook, 28th July

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

****1

Andreas Ottensamer switches from soloist to podium in Montreal

Ian Cochrane, 11th October

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

***11

Famous sons of famous fathers with the Lucerne Symphony Orchestra

Alexander Hall, 17th April

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.

***11

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David Renke

David Renke, geboren in München, hat Musikwissenschaft an der Universität zu Köln studiert, wechselte dann zum Studiengang Medien und Kommunikation an die Universität Passau. Er spielt Klavier, Gitarre und ist als Sänger in verschiedenen Chören in Süddeutschland tätig. Sein Schwerpunkt liegt bei der Musik des frühen 20. Jahrhunderts.