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'...
In diesem als Entdeckungsreise gedachten Klangexperiment werden Resonanzkombinationen von Stimme und Klavier erforscht. Sämtliche Stimmaktionen gelangen durch Röhren an die Schalllöcher im Flügelinnen...
As implied by the title Sonatina facile, this piano piece is an homage to Mozart's famous Sonata in C major K. 545. Not only are the movement headings Allegro - Andante - Rondo identical, but Jörg Wid...
Jörg Widmann composed this short piece in 2015 for the 90th birthday of Pierre Boulez. In this piece, the cello is used in an anything but classical manner: The hands hit the fingerboard, the fingers...
Jörg Widmann composed the three-movement work in 2016 in memory of the Swiss flautist Aurèle Nicolet. The world premiere took place as part of a concert in Freiburg which was dedicated to Nicolet who...
Jörg Widmann's chamber music-filled work from 1999 was commissioned by the Siemens cultural program. As the title suggests, this early work refers to the famous poems of Goethe, but the vocal part is...
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...
This Piano Trio Passacaglia is the 'junior' companion piece to my Cello Concerto Dunkle Saiten [Dark Strings], or more precisely to the concerto's large-dimensional introductory section with the indic...
Mein frühes, noch zu Schulzeiten entstandenes Streichquartett aus 'Absences' ist ein erster Gehversuch in der 'heiligen' Gattung Streichquartett, eine frühe Vorstudie zu meinem sehr viel später entsta...
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...
