Not everything can be explained. Claude Debussy is on the programme, exclusively, and at the beginning Dirk Altmann, the solo clarinettist of the Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra, plays the “Première Rapsodie” – so much for the factual. But how he manages to make the music just start, imperceptibly, out of nothing, how he breathes life into these dreamlike cantilenas, that remains his secret.
Neue Züricher Zeitung 23.01.2015
Claude Debussy: Orchestral works
Label: SWR MUSIC
released: 2014
Dirk Altmann, clarinet
Radio-Sinfonieorchester des SWR
Heinz Holliger, conductor
recording: 15.06.2012 Stadthalle Sindelfingen
Recording master: Andreas Priemer
Sound engineer: Wilfried Wenzel
Cutting: Irmgard Bauer
Instrument: JOSEF MK 11
Dirk Altmann, clarinet and the Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra conducted by Heinz Holliger Live from Ferrara Musica 1999
