Jörg Widmann: spartiti difficile

Flute en suite non è uno dei miei concerti strumentali "epici" come il concerto per violoncello, violino o oboe. Si tratta invece di un arrangiamento molto più piccolo, simile a una suite, di varie fo...

Dopo diversi pezzi che riguardavano il flusso e la padronanza di una forma su larga scala, nel 1997 mi ha affascinato l'idea dei pezzi di Bruch: riduzione, abbreviazione, concentrazione. Gli strumenti...

Edizione unica - clarinetto in Sib (Danza I+II) e in La (Danza III) Vent'anni dopo l'ultimo pezzo solistico per il mio strumento, la Fantasie für Klarinette solo, mi sono nuovamente innamorato dell'an...

Il sentimento struggente insito in ogni elegia è praticamente predestinato al mondo sonoro del clarinetto, ma in questo attraente pezzo da concerto è, come osservò una volta il compositore, "spinato".

Although I never had any 'official' lessons with him, Heinz Holliger has become and will always remain a lifelong teacher to me. And we have developed a friendship that started 10 years ago, in Davos,...

Jörg Widmann treats the violon at first as a vocal instrument, just in the tradition of the great violin concertos of the 19th century through to Alban Berg. But from the cantabile lines, often writte...

In 2006, Jörg Widmann composed these noble, deliberately simple cadenzas for Mozart's violin concerto as a commission from the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival and violinist Isabelle van Keulen. In t...

I wrote the first movement of my Sommersonate in the summer of 2010, and though a self-contained work, it called out for continuation or a companion piece. I imagine the first movement, marked moderat...

Jörg Widmann komponierte die Signale für sechs Stimmen anlässlich der Wittener Tage für neue Kammermusik 2003 ohne die Verwendung eines konkreten Textes. Die einzelnen Stimmen behandeln rein phonetisc...

Referring to Robert Schumann, the title sets the general mood of these character pieces which alternate between Romantic and contemporary tonal language. This is how the composer stresses it in his pr...

Widmann's Intermezzi are influenced by the famous cycles of Johannes Brahms (Op. 116 - Op. 119) which are cited quite frequently. In the preface of the edition, Widmann hints at its 'unsettling reduct...

'Fleurs du mal' ostensibly fits into the traditional pattern of the three-movement piano sonata and conforms to rudimentary sonata form. Yet the formal restrictions - including the predominance of the...

This piece was composed by Jörg Widmann for the Italian pianist Irene Russo in 2003. Consisting only of sharp pulse patterns and their lingering sound, it explores the tonal possibilities of the whole...

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...

Widmann's Quintet is a deliberate tribute to Mozart's work for the same instrumentation (KV 452), both of which can be easily combined. In contrast to Mozart's classical forms of movements, Widmann co...

As far back as I can remember, I have always been fascinated with fairy tales: with their archetypal characters and set phrases like 'Once upon a time ...' and '... they all lived happily ever after'....

This is one of the early works by which the clarinettest Jörg Widmann also made himself a name as a composer. The form develops from the - at first only tentative - interaction of the three instrument...

Jörg Widmanns Diabelli-Variation entstand im Rahmen von Rudolf Buchbinders Diabelli 2020-Projekt, bei dem zahlreiche zeitgenössische Komponisten neue Variationen zu dem Zyklus Beethovens komponierten....

È stato un piacere rispondere all'invito di Sol Gabetta a contribuire con un brano al suo progetto "Songs Without Words" con Bertrand Chamayou. Il titolo è strettamente associato a Felix Mendelssohn B...

I miei quartetti composti tra il 1997 e il 2005 sono stati concepiti come un ciclo interconnesso e autonomo di opere che vanno dal Quartetto n. 1, a mio avviso quasi rivoluzionario, al Quartetto n. 5...

Il mio Quartetto per archi n. 7 - il secondo dei miei "studi beethoveniani" - è il primo dei miei quartetti a possedere una struttura in due movimenti. La densità della tessitura è ulteriormente aumen...