Wiener KammerOrchester / Daniel Ottensamer / Hattori

Punkitititi and Notschibikitschibi: this is what Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and his fellow freemason Anton Stadler called each other. Mozart was deeply impressed by Stadler's clarinet playing: »I've never heard anything like what you do with your instrument. I would never have thought that a clarinet could imitate human voices as deceptively as you do. Your instrument has a tone so soft, so sweet, that no one with a heart can resist it.« Mozart composed his Clarinet Concerto, one of his last completed compositions, for Stadler.

Daniel Ottensamer as soloist on the clarinet

Today it is one of his best-known works, especially due to its second movement. In the concert by the Vienna Chamber Orchestra under the direction of Joji Hattori, Daniel Ottensamer, principal clarinettist of the Vienna Philharmonic and member of the Philharmonix, will be the soloist.

Orchestral works by Franz Schubert and Joseph Haydn

The second half of the programme features the lively »Valses nobles« by Franz Schubert in an orchestral arrangement by Joji Hattori as well as Joseph Haydn's Symphony in F major Hob. I/89. This orchestral work, written shortly after the Paris Symphonies, is still without clarinets - an instrument that Mozart first experienced as an orchestral instrument in Mannheim.