Interview
Jörg Widmann in conversation with Dorothea Schröder
Jörg Widmann conducts the Junge Deutsche Philharmonie
The Junge Deutsche Philharmonie is one of the best youth orchestras in Germany. For this year’s performance at the Berlin Philharmonie, the ensemble has invited a threefold talent: Jörg Widmann is a composer, clarinetist and conductor, and in this concert presents himself in all three functions – with the clarinet sonata in E flat major by Felix Mendelssohn which he has transcribed for orchestra, Robert Schumann’s Second Symphony, and his 2005 Mass for Orchestra.
Junge Deutsche Philharmonie
Jörg Widmann
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