For composer, clarinettist and conductor Jörg Widmann, Felix Mendelssohn is one of music’s greats. He sees parallels to his own work through a shared “delight in tempo, in instrumental colours, in rapid and sudden changes of mood”. You can now hear this artistic affinity for yourself. Widmann conducts Mendelssohn's celebratory “Reformation Symphony” and introduces three of his own works: his overture Con brio, which plays with motifs from Beethoven, his virtuoso Fantasy for Clarinet, and the Second Violin Concerto with his sister Carolin Widmann as the soloist.
Berliner Philharmoniker
Jörg Widmann conductor and clarinet
Carolin Widmann violin
Jörg Widmann
Con brio, Concert Overture
Jörg Widmann
Violin Concerto No. 2
Carolin Widmann violin
Jörg Widmann
Fantasy for solo clarinet
Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy
Symphony No. 5 in D minor, op. 107 “Reformationˮ
In cooperation with Berliner Festspiele / Musikfest Berlin
