Forbes Classical CD of the Week: Jörg Widmann, Violin Concerto

…Where Mahler uses hammer blows in the finale of his Sixth Symphony, Widman uses electrocution… but dramaturgically the effect is quite the same: two, three strikes of fate, before the violinist finally dissipates into the ether…

-> Classical CD Of The Week: Jörg Widmann, A 21st Century Berg Concerto

Jörg Widmann, Violin Concerto, Antiphon, Sirens’ Island, Christian Tetzlaff (violin), Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Daniel Harding (conductor), Ondine