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World Premiere of Jörg Widmann's Trauermarsch with Yefim Bronfman and the Berlin Philharmonic

Dec. 02, 2014

World Premiere of Jörg Widmann's <em>Trauermarsch</em> with Yefim Bronfman and the Berlin Philharmonic

On December 18, Simon Rattle leads the Berlin Philharmonic in the world premiere of Jörg Widmann’s Trauermarsch, a concerto for piano and orchestra, featuring Yefim Bronfman as soloist.

The concerto was jointly commissioned by the Berlin Philharmonic, the San Francisco Symphony and Toronto Symphony Orchestra. The work continues Widmann’s engagement with traditional musical forms, devising unique solutions for the genre’s inherent challenges. Of composing the work, Widmann writes:

It was like euphoria, nothing I had planned: Every gesture of the piano evoked a comment in the orchestra. Strangely, the passages which I thought needed to see the piano alone … they never came. But I struggled for the best possible presence of the piano sound. This is why the orchestral part shows extremely particular dynamic markings. Eventually, only seconds before the end of the concerto, a catastrophic event occurs and the piano is overrun by the orchestra. But that is, of course, a matter of dramaturgy.

Additional performances by the Berlin Philharmonic take place on December 19 and 20, and the San Francisco Symphony presents the US premiere with Bronfman as part of its 2015-2016 season. 

Details on the premiere can be found at berliner-philharmoniker.de.

Visit schott-music.com for more information on Jörg Widmann.

Jörg Widmann
Trauermarsch (2014)
for piano and orchestra
3.(3pic).3(2.ca).3(2.Ebcl, bcl, 3.cbcl).3(3.cbsn)-4.3.3.1-timp.3perc-2hp.cel.pno-str
25’

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