A concert by the Wurttemberg Chamber Orchestra this week, conducted by Ruben Gazarian and featuring the amazing Sharon Kam in works by Copland and Mozart.
The concert begins with a performance of Carl Maria von Weber’s Symphony Number 1 – and then the orchestra is joined by Sharon Kam for Copland’s Clarinet Concerto, followed by the K.622 Clarinet Concert of Mozart. The concert concludes with Mozart’s Symphony Number 41 “Jupiter”, all recorded on May 26, 2011 by Southwest German Radio and broadcast by Radio Nacional España.
Grabbing an excerpt from her bio:
Sharon Kam is one of the world’s leading clarinet soloists and has been working with renowned orchestras in the United States, Europe, and Japan for over 20 years. n 2013 she released a recording entitled “Opera!”. This collaboration with the Württembergisches Kammerorchester, conducted by Ruben Gazarian, includes transcriptions of operatic arias ranging from Rossini and Puccini to Wolf-Ferrari, arranged for clarinet and chamber orchestra. The release was accompanied by an inaugural tour.
To mark the 100th anniversary of Max Reger’s death in 2016, her chamber music partners from her Mozart recording rejoined to record the clarinet quintets by Reger and Brahms (Edel, October 2015).
Her new trio album “Contrasts”, which she recorded together with her long-term partners Ori Kam and Matan Porat, was immediately included after release on the best-of-list of the Preis der Deutschen Schallplattenkritik. In spring 2020, ORFEO International released her recording of clarinet concertos by Carl Maria von Weber and his contemporaries Karol Kurpiński and Bernhard Henrik Crusell, which she recorded together with the ORF Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra and Gregor Bühl. Her Hindemith album was released in 2021.
Now on to Ruben Gazarian:
As guest conductor Ruben Gazarian has directed such renowned orchestras as Radio-Sinfonieorchester Stuttgart des SWR, WDR-Sinfonieorchester Köln, hr-Sinfonieorchester Frankfurt, Hamburg Symphony Orchestra, Kassel State Theater Orchestra, Deutsches-Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, Frankfurt Museum Orchestra (Frankfurt Opera Orchestra), Hessian State Orchestra Wiesbaden, Northwest German Philharmonic Herford, Orchestre National de Lyon, Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra, Haifa Symphony Orchestra, Tel Aviv Opera Orchestra (Rishon LeZion Orchestra), Wroclaw Philharmonic Orchestra, Belgrade Philharmonic Orchestra, Zurich Chamber Orchestra and many others.
All German radio stations as well as Radio Svizzera Italiana, Radio France Musique, Radio Denmark (DR, Danmarks Radio) and several other European stations have recorded numerous of his concerts with various orchestras.
Gazarian works successfully with acclaimed musicians such as Khatia Buniatishvili, Gautier and Renaud Capuçon, Julia Fischer, Hilary Hahn, Katia & Marielle Labèque, Elisabeth Leonskaja, Sabine Meyer, Viktoria Mullova, Sergey Nakariakov, Gerhard Oppitz, Jean-Yves Thibaudet, Julian Rachlin, Frank Peter Zimmermann, the Beaux Arts Trio, the Gewandhaus-Quartet and several others.The vast discography documents the extent of Gazarians repertoire and the quality of his interpretations, born of meticulous rehearsal work, profound emotional understanding and firm mastery over a broad range of periods and styles.
Enjoy the concert – Sharon Kam delivers a spirited performance.
Turn it up and relax.
