Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart composed the famous clarinet quintet for his friend Anton Stadler, a master of the clarinet. Andreas Ottensamer also plays the instrument with an expressiveness and sophistication that few others can match. For his debut in Klosters, the solo clarinettist of the Berlin Philharmonic has brought along his friends of the Schumann Quartet, with whom he has been playing chamber music for many years. The brothers Erik, Ken and Mark Schumann have been making music together since their earliest childhood. Together with violist Veit Hertenstein, the four of them form the Schumann Quartet, which impresses with its particularly homogeneous sound, but also with its willingness to take risks and with its intensity: this makes them just right for Beethoven’s String Quartet No. 4 in C minor op. 18/4. For Andreas Ottensamer’s arrangement of Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy’s “Lieder ohneWorte”, the circle of friends expands into a sextet with Spanish double bassist Uxía Martínez-Botana.

Andreas Ottensamer, clarinet
Schumann Quartett:
Erik Sschumann, violin
Ken Schuman, violin
Veit Hertenstein, viola
Mark Schumann, violoncello
Uxía Martínez-Botana, bass