Widmann, J
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Mendelssohn’s Variations Concertantes packs a lot of variety into its nine minutes...The players here capture its changing moods, and the plangent song-like quality of the Assai Tranquillo,... —
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Gramophone Magazine, February 2024, Editor's Choice
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2024, Winner - Chamber Music Recording of the Year
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Gramophone Awards, 2024 Shortlist, Finalist - Chamber
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalists 2024
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International Classical Music Awards, 2025, Nominated - Chamber Music
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Gramophone Magazine, Critics' Choice 2024
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East Meets West
Aftab Darvishi - Unsuk Chin - Jörg Widmann - Thomas Adès
Anne-Sophie Mutter (violin), Nancy Zhou, Ye-Eun Choi, Muriel Razavi, Pablo Ferrández (cello), London Symphony Orchestra, Thomas Adès
However we rate Mutter's proxy contributions to the new violin literature as a commissioner - and however classy her playing here - it's the sense of a beautifully conceived album that impresses... —
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Gramophone Magazine, May 2026, Editor's Choice
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Es war einmal... (Once Upon a Time...)
Fairy Tales by Robert Schumann & Jörg Widmann
Jörg Widmann (clarinet), Tabea Zimmermann (viola) & Dénes Várjon (piano)
The first movement of Widmann’s piece has fragments in Schumannesque style floating in and out of focus…It’s an altogether impressive work, and Widmann is joined in this premiere recording by... —
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Presto Editor's Choice, December 2017
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2018, Winner - Chamber Music Recording (19th-Century Music)
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Diapason d’Or de l’Année, 2018, Winner - Musique de chambre
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International Classical Music Awards, 2019, Winner - Chamber Music
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The clarinet ’s cool, refined tones blend with warm, pliable strings to irresistible effect in Mozart ’s joyful Quintet, K581 and Widmann’s substantial, singlemovement response – a complex and... —
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International Classical Music Awards, 2024, Nominated - Chamber Music
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Æther
Sarah Aristidou (soloist), Daniel Barenboim, Christian Rivet, Emmanuel Pahud, Orchester des Wandels, Chor der KlangVerwaltung, Thomas Guggeis
Can you capture the ineffable? Sarah Aristidou’s remarkable debut disc Æther explores things within and beyond. She is duly shrouded in mist for the booklet pictures, but there is nothing the... —
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2023, Nominated - Newcomer
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Taken at face value, the order and selection of works seems entirely random…However, the eccentric programme is carefully considered; repeated listening reveals new parallels between the pieces.... —
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BBC Music Magazine, July 2018, Instrumental Choice
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Diapason d’Or, July/August 2018, Nouveauté
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2019, Solo Recital (flute)
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The individual variations, specially commissioned from contemporary composers and played here en suite, share an aroma of freshness due to their unfamiliarity. They also elicit from Buchbinder... —
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Presto Editor's Choice, March 2020
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2020, Nominee - Instrumentalist of the Year
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Beethoven: The Symphonies
and reflections
Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Mariss Jansons
Jansons adopts...an approach which takes into consideration the historically informed approach of the last 30 years, but is still aware of what performances were like in the great German tradition...If... —
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Gramophone Magazine, December 2013, Disc of the Month
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Gramophone Awards, 2014, Shortlisted - Orchestral
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Widmann: Viola Concerto
Antoine Tamestit (viola), Signum Quartett
Symphonie-Orchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Daniel Harding
This is a wonderfully rich and rewarding concerto, packed with inventive orchestral detail. Widmann seems to move between different worlds ion the five interlinked movements, and the slower... —
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BBC Music Magazine, May 2018, Concerto Choice
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2019, Winner - Premiere
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In Das heisse Herz you feel the presence of Schumann, the popular dance hall, folk tunes, and the torment of Wozzeck as filtered through Widmann’s sensibility. The piano part parallels the voice... —
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Presto Editor's Choice, July 2022
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2023, Nominated - Male Singer of the Year & Solo Vocal
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