Many meetings with Jörg Widmann, Lisa Batiashvili, Tsotne Zedginidze et al. at Kammermusiksaal

Composer-in-Residence and clarinetist Jörg Widmann at the Philharmonie. © Stefan Höderath / Berliner Philharmoniker An evening of many inspired meetings took place at the Kammermusiksaal of the Berlin Philharmonie on Wednesday, as Artist-in-Residence, violinist Lisa Batiashvili and Composer-in-Residence and clarinetist Jörg Widmann, joined by pianist Denis Kozhukhin, young composer and pianist Tsotne Zedginidze and members of...

Revelatory album premiere for Jörg Widmann’s Clarinet Quintet from the composer and Hagen Quartet

Within the realm of contemporary chamber music, Jörg Widmann’s Clarinet Quintet (2017) stands out as something quite unique. Cast as a forty-minute Adagio, the one-movement quintet has found its abode at the delicate end of the dynamic scale, out of which textures of dazzling finesse and subtle fortitude are wrought, derived from utmost distilled core...

Illuminated take on the Beethoven concerto from Veronika Eberle, the LSO and Rattle, featuring splendid new cadenzas by Jörg Widmann

Among the violin concerti, Ludwig van Beethoven’s solitary completed foray to the medium, the Concerto in D major, op. 61 (1806), is a veritable gem, one of striking originality. A subtly radical affair, the three-movement concerto may not come off as a vehicle of tempestuous virtuosity; instead, there is unprecedented meditative ambiance embedded in the...