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The Cleveland Orchestra Celebrates the Music of Jörg Widmann

Sep. 08, 2014

The Cleveland Orchestra Celebrates the Music of Jörg Widmann

The Cleveland Orchestra, led by Franz Welser-Möst, celebrates the music of Jörg Widmann this month with a long line-up of US and European performances featuring many of the composer's most celebrated works. The concert tour, which began on August 29 in Cleveland, takes the orchestra throughout Europe with performances at the BBC Proms, the Culture and Congress Centre (KKL) in Lucerne, the Berlin Philharmonie, the Musikverein and Brucknerhaus in Austria, the Salle Pleyel in Paris, and the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam.

Among the works programmed is Widmann’s concerto for flute and orchestra, Flûte en suite, featuring Joshua Smith as soloist. The work was commissioned by The Cleveland Orchestra who gave the world premiere with Smith in 2011. 

Of the work, Jörg writes:

This ‘Suite’ is not one of my ‘epic’ instrumental concertos such as the concertos for cello, violin or oboe, but a substantially smaller-structured series of dance forms arranged into a suite. Sunken worlds suddenly emerge here, only to reach the surface, hover in dangerously distorted fashion and then sink back to the bottom. Almost every individual movement allots the solo flute a specific tonal coloring and an instrumental group from the orchestra… This permits the flute to remain the provider of all impulses; it attaches itself to the wide variety of instrumental colors, becomes suffused with these colors and thereby shines in different lights – acerbic, pale and radiant.

Additional works by Jörg Widmann featured on the tour include Lied, Con brio, and Teufel Amor.

For more information on the performances, visit www.clevelandorchestra.com.

Details on Jörg Widmann can be found at www.schott-music.com.

Jörg Widmann
Flûte en suite (2011)
for flute and orchestra
3(2.afl, 3.bfl, 3pic).3(2.ob. d’am., 3.ca).3(3.cbsn)-4.4.3.1-2perc-hp.cel (cemb)-str
21’

Lied (2003, revised 2009)
for orchestra
3(3.pic).2.3.2(2.cbsn)-4.3high tp.3.1-perc-hp.acc-str
25’

Con brio (2008)
for orchestra
2(2.pic).2.2.2-2.2.0.0-perc-str(14.12.10.8.6)
12’

Teufel Amor (2009, rev. 2011)
Sinfonischer Hymnos nach Schiller 
for orchestra
2(2pic).2(2 Lotus flute).3(2.bcl, 3.cbcl).2(2.cbsn)-4.2(pictpt).3.1–timp.2perc-hp-cel-str(16.14.12.10.8)
30’

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