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Jörg Widmann (Composer)

Viola Concerto

viola and orchestra
Edition: Performance material
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For me, the viola has always been first and foremost an extraordinary vocal instrument. For me as a musician, playing chamber music with the viola is one of the most beautiful things in the world. Stories can be told on the viola's C string alone that would be unthinkable on any other string instrument. The main setting in my Viola Concerto is a utopian land: an alien-feeling sphere at the beginning, populated exclusively by viola pizzicati in all possible and impossible variations; then as a yearning song from an imaginary oriental fairyland; finally a plunge into artistically absurd cascades of virtuosity that introduce the work's centrepiece, an aria for viola and extremely muted strings; a painfully intimate farewell to a sunken world. Jörg Widmann

Orchestral Cast

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Title:
Viola Concerto
Edition:
Performance material
Publisher/Label:
Schott Music
Year of composition:
2015
Duration:
31 ′0 ′′
World Premiere:
October 28, 2015 · Paris (F)
Philharmonie 1, Grande Salle
Antoine Tamestit, viola · Conductor: Paavo Järvi · Orchestre de Paris

Commissioned work :
Auftragswerk des Orchestre de Paris, Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra und des Symphonieorchesters des Bayerischen Rundfunks

Technical Details

Media Type:
Hire/performance material
Product number:
LS 5810-01
Manufacturer:
Schott Music GmbH & Co. KG
55116 Mainz
Germany

Preview/Media Contents

Audio:
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Jörg Widmann: Viola Concerto (Antoine Tamestit, hr-Sinfonieorchester, Andrés Orozco-Estrada

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    Viola Concerto
    Conductor: Daniel Harding
    Orchestra: Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks
    March 4, 2016 | München (Germany) , Residenz, Herkulessaal
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    Viola Concerto
    Conductor: Daniel Harding
    Orchestra: Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks
    March 3, 2016 | München (Germany) , Residenz, Herkulessaal — National Premiere
  • Jörg Widmann
    Viola Concerto
    Conductor: Daniel Harding
    Orchestra: Sveriges Radios Symfoniorkester
    November 27, 2015 | Stockholm (Sweden) , Berwaldhallen
    19:30
  • Jörg Widmann
    Viola Concerto
    Conductor: Daniel Harding
    Orchestra: Sveriges Radios Symfoniorkester
    November 26, 2015 | Stockholm (Sweden) , Berwaldhallen — National Premiere
    18:00
  • Jörg Widmann
    Viola Concerto
    Conductor: Paavo Järvi
    Orchestra: Orchestre de Paris
    October 28, 2015 | Paris (France) , Philharmonie 1, Grande Salle — World Premiere
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