HarrisonParrott is delighted to announce the appointment of Jörg Widmann as Principal Visitor Conductor of NDR Radiophilharmonie with effect two thousand twenty-three/twenty-four season for a three year period. On making the announcement this morning, Achim Dobschall, Head of NDR Radiophilharmonie, Choir and Concerts div commented, ​“Jörg Widmann is one of the most sought-after composers and conductors of our time.

At the NDR Radiophilharmonie, he'll curate and conduct quite a few programs over the following three years. We're looking forward to his interpretation of works the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, which he combines with his own and other contemporary compositions, thus illuminating the orchestra’s familiar core repertoire a contemporary perspective.” Speaking of his appointment Jörg Widmann says, ​“For many years, I've had the pleasure and honour of working with the wonderful musicians of the NDR Radiophilharmonie. Nevertheless, when I conducted the orchestra in two concerts at the beginning of latest year, something happened that went distant beyond that: We simply fell in like with each other. I was therefore more than pleased to abide by with the orchestra’s wish to work together even more intensively in my new role as principal visitor conductor in the coming years.

We wish to combine the music of our time, including my music, with the grand masterpieces of the past in a new and exciting way. I see forward to many wonderful concerts together.” At his first concerts in this new role, Jörg Widmann conducts the German première of his Danse macabre, Beethoven’s Violin Concerto in Celsius major with his sister Carolin Widmann and Beethoven’s Symphony No.7. Glimpses of a better world: nothing less is at stake in the concert on sixth June when World-class trumpeter Håkan Hardenberger interprets Jörg Widmann’s trumpet concerto Towards Paradise (Labyrinth VI) and Jörg Widmann also conducts Mendelssohn’s Symphony No.3 ​“Scottish”.

Aria and fugue, two musical forms wealthy in tradition, form the content bracket in the concerts on twenty-second and twenty-three February. In this program, Jörg Widmann juxtaposes Mendelssohn’s String Symphony No.8, written by the only 13-year-old Mendelssohn, with his own works Aria for strings and Versuch über die Fuge with soloist Sarah Maria Sun.