Jörg Widmann: Elegie

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These concentrated miniatures of almost Webern-like brevity showcase Widmann's virtuosity as well as his comprehensive understanding of his instrument's capabilities. These qualities are projected... — The Guardian, 21st April 2011, 3 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 28th Mar 2011
Catalogue No: 4763309
Label: ECM
Series: New Series
Length: 67 minutes

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Widmann, J: Messe für großes Orchester

Work length40:16

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German Radio Philharmonic Orchestra
Christoph Poppen
Recorded: 2008-06
Recording Venue: Congresshalle, Saarbrücken

Kyrie: Introitus. Monodia (Sequenza ad una voce)

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Interludium I

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Contrapunctus I (a due voci)

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Interludium II

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Contrapunctus II (a tre voci)

Track length1:55

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Interludium III

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Gloria: Antiphon (Echo-Choral)

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Contrapunctus III

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Crucifixus

Track length7:57

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Et Resurrexit: Contrapunctus IV. Exodus

Track length5:43

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Widmann, J: Fünf Bruchstücke

Work length8:35

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Jörg Widmann (clarinet), Heinz Holliger (piano)
Recorded: 2009-05
Recording Venue: Klaus-von-Bismarck-Saal, WDR Funkhaus, Köln

I. Äußerst langsam

Track length1:10

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II. Presto possibile

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III. Sehr langsam, frei

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IV. Energiegeladen, sehr schnell

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V. Achtel = 40

Track length2:50

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Widmann, J: Elegie für Klarinette und Orchester

Work length18:41

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Jörg Widmann (clarinet)
German Radio Philharmonic Orchestra
Christoph Poppen
Recorded: 2008-06
Recording Venue: SR Studio 1, Saarbrücken

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Jörg Widmann (born 1973 in Munich) is one of the rapidly rising stars of contemporary music, very highly regarded as both composer and interpreter. After an acclaimed ECM debut as solo clarinettist last year in Erkki-Sven Tüür’s concerto Noēsis, now comes a portrait album that addresses both aspects of Widmann’s creativity, the composer and the resourceful instrumentalist.

Christoph Poppen conducts the Deutsche Radio Philharmonie in two major works of broad scope – Messe for large orchestra, and Elegie for clarinet & orchestra. In between are the Fünf Bruchstücke from 1997, fascinating miniatures that find Widmann the clarinettist in speeding dialogues with Heinz Holliger, the latter making a recorded debut as pianist. With large or small forces, these are powerful and profoundly musical performances.

Jörg Widmann, who studied composition with Hans Werner Henze, Heiner Goebbels and Wolfgang Rihm has an expansive understanding of the structural and sound-colour possibilities of the music of our time. Few composers of his generation have received as many accolades and awards. His long list includes the Arnold Schoenberg Prize, the Claudio Abbado Composition Award, the Elise L. Stoeger Prize of the Lincoln Center Chamber Music Society, New York, and more. In 2009 London’s Wigmore Hall devoted several concerts to his music.

As chamber musician Widmann performs regularly with partners including András Schiff, Tabea Zimmermann, Kim Kashkashian, and Hélène Grimaud. As a soloist he has achieved great success with orchestras around the world and given premieres of major works by Wolfgang Rihm, Aribert Reimann and Heinz Holliger.

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21st April 2011

These concentrated miniatures of almost Webern-like brevity showcase Widmann's virtuosity as well as his comprehensive understanding of his instrument's capabilities. These qualities are projected on to a much more expansive orchestral canvas in Elegie...Widmann envisages the orchestra as "singing" the words, interspersed with purely instrumental interludes

16th April 2011

This fine portrait disc begins with Messe, an orchestral Mass without words — impressive, if a little remote. But humanity leaps back with some playful clarinet miniatures and the eloquent memorial of Élégie, with Widmann soaring with his clarinet, far beyond what would ordinarily be possible. Committed playing too from Christoph Poppen and the German Radio Philharmonic.

4th June 2011

The magnificent opening could be the distorted recollection of a Bach Passion, and there’s something deeply disquieting about the way in which Widmann’s massive orchestral textures rapidly thin out into bare scraps of melody. It’s followed by a sequence of tiny fragments which sound like ghostly ruminations of Baroque choral music...The return of the opening Kyrie motif at the close of Messe is highly theatrical but emotionally satisfying.

Jörg Widmann: Elegie

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