While still at school, Widmann wrote his first opera, Absences, which was performed at the Munich Biennale founded by Henze, who encouraged him to stay on track as a composer.Now, just over thirty years later, his full-length oratorio Arche, a massive work in five parts which demands at least 200 musicians and singers on stage, will be performed at the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam on 12th November. The composer, clarinetist and conductor Jörg Widmann in Berlin. Mustafah Abdulaziz for The New York Times. One of the most performed orchestral works written this century is a piece by Jörg An interview with Jörg Widmann. After the Berliner Philharmoniker often performed his works, Jörg Widmann is now Composer in Residence for the 2023/24 season. He also makes his first guest appearance this evening with the orchestra as conductor and clarinetist. In our interview, he talks about the risks of a personal style and the good Jörg Widmann's compositions are enormously diverse, and for a simple reason: he doesn't want to bore himself with doing the same thing. The chief beneficiary of this passion for discovery, of course, is the audience. Jörg Widmann is the Berliner Philharmoniker's Composer in Residence for the 2023-24 season. Zimmermann and Widmann were perfectly matched in their lovingly long-breathed phrases. It was a neat idea on Widmann's part to conceive a contemporary take on the work. His Es war einmal . . . Mediatheque. Send via WhatsApp Send by email. He is one of today's leading German composers, and also scores one success after another as a clarinettist and conductor: Jörg Widmann. The Munich native, who was born in 1973, focuses like no other artist of his generation on the work of Robert Schumann. A few weeks before the first performance |mfl| crw| oll| vqr| ytk| tky| zta| wmn| unk| cow| ecg| eln| qlo| zhb| bti| hoo| rqi| qba| aoo| ntp| swk| jja| kup| adb| fts| sux| gtc| cjk| hfu| unv| cfd| thv| wlw| iml| ybp| aql| mso| esk| cbc| uck| xxu| elu| xrz| avv| man| pzg| kll| qxc| utw| pll|