Musical dialogue between Robert Schumann and Jörg Widmann

CD-Release at WERGO: Fleurs du mal

Robert Schumann and Jörg Widmann – a musical dialogue between a modern and a Romantic composer. WERGO juxtaposes four piano works of the two composers and takes a look at Schumann on his 200th birthday from a somewhat different perspective: His works „Nachtstücke“ and „Gesänge der Frühe“ as well as Widmann's „Toccata“ and eponymous sonata „Fleurs du mal“ are interpreted by the Sicilian pianist Fabio Romano, whom the magazine Fono Forum has recently chosen as "best up-and-coming artist of the year".
 
Seeing himself deeply rooted in the classical-Romantic tradition as a composer and interpreter, and regularly entering into a dialogue with Mozart, Beethoven and Schubert as a world-renowned clarinettist and experimental composer par excellence, Jörg Widmann has discovered in himself and developed a special affinity particularly towards the music by Robert Schumann. It is particularly in his chamber music works that Widmann repeatedly makes direct references to works of the great Romanticist; but there are also subtle hints at related moments: breaks – and bridges into the unknown, on either side. And not seldom are they fields of twilight, of nightmares, of the dark side of the Moon which are explored…

Fleurs du Mal
WER 6808 2 (CD)

- Jörg Widmann: Toccata
  for piano
- Robert Schumann:
  Nachtstücke op. 23
- Jörg Widmann: Fleurs 
  du mal - piano sonata
  after Beaudelaire
- Robert Schumann:
  Gesänge der Frühe
  op. 133
  Fabio Romano, piano
 
 
 
 

Further Publications about Jörg Widmann:

 
Markus Fein: Im Sog der Klänge
Gespräche mit dem Komponisten Jörg Widmann
 
The conversations with the composer and performer Jörg Widmann recorded here took place over a period of six months. Widmann proves to be an intensive and authentic conversational partner.
Series «edition neue zeitschrift für musik»
book | 142 pages | Hardcover |
Order No. NZ 5010
 
 
 
Jörg Widmann: Experimentelle Kammermusik
 
Film by Peider A. Defilla
«Skelett» für Schlagzeugsolo|«Signale» für sechs Stimmen|
«Hallstudie» für Klavier
Series «musica viva – forum der gegenwartsmusik»
DVD | film and interview
Order No. NZ 52
 
Fünf Bruckstücke für Klarinette und Klavier
 
Etude III für Violine solo
Freie Stücke für Ensemble
Fieberphantasie for piano, string quartett und clarinet
 
Jörg Widmann. clarinet / Silke Avenhaus,
piano / Carolin Widmann, violin /
Ensemble Modern / Dominique My, conductor /
Muriel Cantoreggi, violin / Rüdiger Lotter,
violin / Kelvin Hawthorne, viola /
Christoph Richter, violoncello
Order No. WER 65552 (CD)
 
(10/28/2010)



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