The violinist Lisa Batiashvili and the composer-clarinettist Jörg Widmann have been friends for many years. This season they are both musical partners of the Berliner Philharmoniker: as Artist- and Composer-in Residence, respectively. For their joint appearance, they have put together a programme that is at once modern and sensuously ear-catching. In Widmann’s early work Tears of the Muses, the clarinet and violin merge miraculously into a single shimmering sound. Along with compositions by Sergei Prokofiev and Bela Bartók, there will also be performances of works by Tsotne Zedginidze – a composer born in Georgia in 2009 who Lisa Batiashvili calls “a talent of the century”.
Lisa Batiashvili violin
Jörg Widmann clarinet
Denis Kozhukhin piano
Tsotne Zedginidze piano
Jörg Widmann
Tränen der Musen for clarinet, violin and piano
Lisa Batiashvili violin, Jörg Widmann clarinet, Denis Kozhukhin piano
Tsotne Zedginidze
Work for solo piano
Tsotne Zedginidze piano
Tsotne Zedginidze
further work
Lisa Batiashvili violin, Jörg Widmann clarinet
Sergei Prokofiev
Overture on Hebrew themes
Jörg Widmann clarinet, Denis Kozhukhin piano
Béla Bartók
Contrasts for violin, clarinet and piano, Sz 111
Lisa Batiashvili violin, Jörg Widmann clarinet, Denis Kozhukhin piano
