BRSO mit Jörg Widmann bei der BR musica viva

"For me, the main drive to compose always comes from emotion," says Jörg Widmann, who "as a clarinet-playing composer" and conductor "is one of the shining lights" of the new music scene: "Exhausting, grandiose" (Süddeutsche Zeitung). His artistic credo is: "To combine tradition with the new", whereby it is precisely this productive reception of the musical past that has allowed the musical all-rounder to find his own sound language: music that surprises in its virtuosity, intensity and directness and often collapses on the listener like a cataract, but also challenges him with quiet, extremely fragile moments.

"The influence of Mozart and Schubert on my work cannot be denied." The best example: the orchestral piece Armonica, which is as ethereal as it is glassy and was inspired by Mozart's spherical glass harmonica works ...

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Program

Jörg Widmann [*1973]
Armonica
for orchestra [2007]

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart [1756-1791]
Adagio
for glass harmonica in C, K356/K617a [1791]

Jörg Widmann [*1973]
Three Shadow Dances
for clarinet solo [2013]

Danse macabre
for orchestra [2022]

Towards Paradise [Labyrinth VI]
for trumpet and orchestra [2021]

Performers

Christa Schönfeldinger glass harmonica
Håkan Hardenberger trumpet
Symphony Orchestra of the Bavarian Radio
Jörg Widmann clarinet and conductor