★★★★★
Vast, edgy and full of beautiful surprises, Jörg Widmann's 2007 Violin Concerto is a creative tour de force of style and form. The piece unreels in a single nearly unbroken skein of a half-hour, with the soloist playing all the time - questing, probing, reflecting back on what has come before. And if that description makes the piece sound like a long meander, the effect is quite the opposite...
- www.sfgate.com
2013-09-15
★★★★★
Buy it from Buy the CDJörg WidmannWidmann: Violin Concerto, Antiphon, Insel der Sirenen [Ondine: ODE 1215-2]Daniel Harding, Christian TetzlaffOndine2013 It's rare that a new work's performance overshadows the piece itself, but Christian Tetzlaff's account of the violin concerto Jörg Widmann composed for him in 2007 is so astonishingly vivid and secure that Widmann's impressive work at least has to share the spotlight with its dedicatee...
- www.guardian.co.uk
2013-05-24
★★★★★
Freie Stucke, Sieben Abgesange Auf Ein Tote Linde and Oktett performed by Collegium Novum Zurich (Olga Pasichnyk, soprano; Jorg Widmann, conductor). "Composer and clarinetist Jorg Widmann is one of the most sought after composers on the contemporary scene today.
- www.forcedexposure.com
2010-08-27