Jörg Widmann: Partituras dificil

Kian Soltani interpretó el estreno mundial de esta obra para solo, encargada por la Fundación Daniel Barenboim. Además de los efectos de scordatura, Widmann explora con maestría los mundos sonoros y l...

Widmann's Études für Violine solo are in the tradition of Paganini's Capricen or the piano études by Chopin, Liszt and Ligeti: artistically autonomous concert pieces on one specific technical problem...

The five strings quartets by Jörg Widmann are compact studies, like those of his teacher Wolfgang Rihm. Performed individually, the focus is on the respective central technical and aesthetic idea. Per...

The horn piece 'Air' requires a highly virtuosic technique, as indeed it should since it was composed in 2005 as the compulsory piece for the 54th International Music Competition of the ARD. At the sa...

As a clarinetist frequently performing with string quartets, the clarinet quintet is a strange omission from Jörg Widmann's catalogue of works. Up until now, his quintet programmes have included works...

As a clarinetist frequently performing with string quartets, the clarinet quintet is a strange omission from Jörg Widmann's catalogue of works. Up until now, his quintet programmes have included works...

Jörg Widmann paraphrases Mendelssohn's famous wedding march from the Midsummer Night's Dream solo in this piece for violin solo. The paraphrase was actually written for a wedding that took place in Ro...

Jörg Widmann paraphrases Mendelssohn's famous wedding march from the Midsummer Night's Dream solo in this piece for violin solo. The paraphrase was actually written for a wedding that took place in Ro...

The Jagdquartett (Hunt Quartet), which Jörg Widmann wrote as his third string quartet in 2003, following the Choralquartett, also begins with a visible gesture. After a short signal cry from the perfo...

Jörg Widmann wrote his cadenzas on Haydn's Cello Concerto No. 1 for the cellist Jan Vogler in 2002. These cadenzas add a virtuoso texture to Haydn's spirited composition. This series, unique in classi...

Jörg Widmann, an internationally sought-after soloist and professor of clarinet at the Freiburg Musikhochschule, displays the exquisite refinement of contemporary clarinet sound in 'Fünf Bruchstücke'...

After several pieces dealing with flow and mastery of a large-scale form, in 1997 I became fascinated by the idea of Bruch pieces: reduction, abridgement, concentration. The instruments I had grown fo...

Widmann views in his 'Three Shadow Dances' again the clarinet from a completely different perspective and thereby encourages young clarinetists to develop an enthusiastic and playful approach to micro...

Over the years, I have periodically composed a number of (unpublished) lieder, but have only now created my first 'official' lieder cycle for Christian Gerhaher and his accompanist Gerold Huber. Unfam...

Many pieces with a classical cycle of movements lead to an examination of baroque counterpoint in the form of a fugue. Widmann's fifth string quartet, which closes his first cycle in this genre like a...

With the title of this composition, Fever Fantasy, Jörg Widmann refers to its musical air: 'I often feel Robert Schumann's melodic shape to be like the amplitude of a temperature curve: nervous, flicke...

180 Beats per minute' entstand 1993, kurz nach meiner Schulzeit. Die damals sehr angesagten 'Techno-Nights' inspirierten mich zu diesem Stück. Ein rhythmischer Drive und ein permanenter Wechsel des Pu...