Winding voices: Jansons places the clarinet centre stage

By Hugo Shirley, 29 April 2017

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“Jansons has a special knack, it seems, for bringing extra brilliance to any band he conducts”

Reviewed at Philharmonie: Großer Saal, Berlin on 27 April 2017

Sibelius, Symphony no. 1 in E minor, Op.39

Weber, Clarinet concerto no. 1 in F minor, Op.73

Bartók, The Miraculous Mandarin, Op.19: Suite

Andreas Ottensamer, Clarinet

Berliner Philharmoniker

Mariss Jansons, Conductor

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Hugo Shirley

Hugo Shirley is a Berlin-based writer and musicologist. He has written widely as a critic in the UK, including for The Spectator, the Financial Times and Daily Telegraph, and has held editorial posts at both Opera and Gramophone. He was editor of 30-Second Opera (Ivy Press, 2015) and has a PhD in musicology from King's College London, where his thesis focused on Strauss and Hofmannsthal’s Die Frau ohne Schatten.

Winding voices: Jansons places the clarinet centre stage in Berlin