Name: Composer Festival Opening
Start: 2023-11-09T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2023-11-09T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Konserthuset (Stockholm Concert Hall)

Organization

Stockholm Concert House

Conductor

Jörg Widmann

Singer

Carolin Widmann

Violin

Instrumentalist

Clarinet

Christa Schönfeldinger

Konserthuset Stockholm

Orchestra

Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra

Composer Festival Opening

Stockholm

Sweden

Konserthus

The Main Hall

Composer Festival Opening: Con Brio Jörg Widmann (+4 More)

Public

Private

Con Brio

Violin Concerto No. 2

Fantasy for solo clarinet

Armonica

Danse macabre

Ayyappa swamy y

Approved

Konserthuset (Stockholm Concert Hall)

Accordionist

Archlutenist

Baroque Flutist

Baroque Oboist

Baroque Trumpetist

Bassist

Bassoonist

Cellist

Clarinetist

Contrabassist

Cornettist

Flutist

Guitarist

Harper

Harpsichordist

Hornist

Lutenist

Mandoline Player

Musette de cour Player

Oboist

Organist

Percussionist

Pianist

Recorder Player

Saxophonist

Tenor Violinist

Timpani

Trombonist

Trumpeter

Tuba Player

Vibraphonist

Viola Pomposa Player

Viola da gamba

Viola d’amore Player

Violinist

Violino Piccolo Player

Violist

Actor

Broadcasting

Choir

Choreographer

Chorus Director

Chorus master

Composer

Costume designer

Dancer

Dramaturge

Executive producer

Extra

Hairstylist

Illustrator

Librettist

Lighting designer

Makeup artist

Orchestra Operations

Other

Photographer

Poet

Repetiteur

Set designer

Sound designer

Stage Manager

Stage director

Teacher

Translator

Video designer

Vocal coach

Wig & Makeup Designer

Writer

Writing and performance

Bass-baritone

Soprano

Countertenor

Bass

Contralto

Tenor

Baritone

Mezzo-soprano

Alto

Child vocalist

Continuo

Silent

Spoken

Composer, clarinettist and conductor Jörg Widmann is currently one of the most acclaimed names in the world of classical music. His shifting, richly varied and imaginative music is often associated with familiar classical and romantic composers, such as Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert and Brahms, but it is simultaneously unmistakably rooted in our era. His unique blend of tradition and innovation has made him one of the world’s most frequently performed contemporary composers.

In the striking concert overture Con Brio, Widmann has taken elements of Beethoven’s Symphony No. 8 and combined them with powerful eruptions of chords and contrasting sound formations. This music has a rare capacity to create anticipation and surprise. 

The violin concerto as a genre is sacred and quite personal to Widmann. His second violin concerto is written for and dedicated to his sister, Carolin Widmann, and a central part of the concerto is its romantic middle movement, which opens “a wide, branched, spiritual cosmos, a journey within.” In the Fantasie for Solo Clarinet, composed in his youth, he explores all possibilities of the instrument. The piece has elements of klezmer, jazz and unusual playing techniques. The programme also includes something as unusual as a concerto for glass harmonica and orchestra. 

For the Composer Festival, the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra has commissioned a new work and the title of Jörg Widmann’s piece sparks the imagination: Danse macabre.

English

Composer Festival Opening by Widmann, From (2023/2023), Conductor Jörg Widmann, Konserthuset (Stockholm Concert Hall), Stockholm, Sweden

Performance credits (Cast & Crew )

Ensemble

Co-Producer

Programme, About & Synopsis

Photos

Further reading

Performance Dates & Venues

Venues