Carolin Widmann
Violinist Carolin Widmann has maintained a top-flight career in continental Europe and in Britain, manifesting a strong commitment to contemporary music while offering choice, connoisseur-label interpretations of mainstream repertory works. She has recorded frequently for the ECM label.
Widmann was born in 1976 in Munich; her brother, Jörg Widmann, is a noted clarinetist and composer. Carolin's training was fully international, taking place under Igor Ozim in Germany, David Takeno in England, and Michèle Auclair in the U.S., at Boston's New England Conservatory. Widmann first attracted attention in 1998 by winning the Prix du President at the Concours International Yehudi Menuhin in Boulogne-sur-Mer, France. She followed that up with several other prizes, including the notable Preis der deutschen Schallplattenkritik ("German Recording Critics' Prize") in 2006. That prize was for Widmann's first album, Reflections I, which had an ambitious program for a debut: it focused on music from Ysaÿe to Boulez to Jörg Widmann that reflected on its own influences. That recording was made for Telos, but the majority of her recordings have been made for the contemporary-music-oriented and semi-audiophile ECM label. Her 2012 ECM album of Schubert violin works won critical plaudits for its inward interpretations, and, in general, Widmann has brought fresh perspective to Romantic repertory. She has also recorded music of such contemporary composers as Wolfgang Rihm, Morton Feldman, Olivier Messiaen, and Salvatore Sciarrino.
Widmann teaches at the Felix Mendelssohn University of Music and Theatre in Leipzig and led the venerable Sommerliche Musiktage Hitzacker festival for several years in the early 2010s. Her touring schedule has been increasingly demanding and prestigious, including appearances with such orchestras as the Berlin Philharmonic, the Orchestre de Paris, and the Los Angeles Philharmonic. She has commissioned new works by Rihm, Peter Eötvos, Julian Anderson, and other composers. Widmann has also experimented with historical performance, using gut strings in performances of older music and leading the Akademie für Alte Musik, Berlin, in performances in 2014-2015. Widmann released a recording of violin concertos by Mendelssohn and Schumann, conducting the Chamber Orchestra of Europe from the violin, on ECM in 2016. She has also recorded for the NEOS label, where in 2021, she joined her brother and the SWR Experimentalstudio for an album of works by Pierre Boulez. In 2022, she issued L'aurore, an album of solo violin works, on ECM.
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Felix Mendelssohn - Robert Schumann
Carolin Widmann, The Chamber Orchestra of Europe
Classique - Paru chez ECM New Series le 26 août 2016
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L’Aurore
Classique - Paru chez ECM New Series le 17 juin 2022
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Schumann: Violinsonaten
Classique - Paru chez ECM New Series le 29 août 2008
4 étoiles du Monde de la Musique16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Pierre Boulez: Anthèmes & Dialogue de l'ombre double
Classique - Paru chez NEOS Music le 2 juil. 2021
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Franz Schubert: Fantasie C-Dur; Rondo h-Moll; Sonate A-Dur
Carolin Widmann, Alexander Lonquich
Classique - Paru chez ECM New Series le 27 janv. 2012
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Musica viva, Vol. 35 (Live)
Classique - Paru chez BR-Klassik le 16 oct. 2020
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Messiaen: Quatuor pour la fin du temps, I/22 (Live)
Jörg Widmann, Carolin Widmann, Nicolas Altstaedt, Alexander Lonquich
Musique de chambre - Paru chez Orfeo le 22 oct. 2012
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Franz Schubert: Fantasie C-Dur / Rondo h-Moll / Sonate A-Dur
Carolin Widmann, Alexander Lonquich
Classique - Paru chez ECM New Series le 27 janv. 2012
24-Bit 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Widmann, Carolin: Reflections I
Classique - Paru chez Profil le 1 janv. 2006
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Feldman, Zimmermann, Schönberg, Xenakis
Classique - Paru chez ECM New Series le 25 sept. 2009
Discothèque Insolite Qobuz16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Morton Feldman: Violin And Orchestra
Carolin Widmann, Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra, Emilio Pomarico
Classique - Paru chez ECM New Series le 30 avr. 2013
24-Bit 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Musica viva, Vol. 33: Peter Ruzicka
Symphonieorchester Des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Sergei Nakariakov, Carolin Widmann, Giuliano Sommerhalder, Vocalsonsort Berlin, Peter Ruzicka
Classique - Paru chez NEOS Music le 2 août 2019
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Wolfgang Rihm : Über die Linie II - Coll'Arco (Rihm Edition, Vol. 6)
Jörg Widmann, Carolin Widmann, WDR Sinfonieorchester Köln, Sylvain Cambreling, Eivind Gullberg Jensen
Classique - Paru chez SWR Classic le 6 mars 2012
5 de Diapason16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Morton Feldman: Violin And Orchestra
Carolin Widmann, Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra, Emilio Pomarico
Classique - Paru chez ECM New Series le 30 avr. 2013
24-Bit 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
L’Aurore
Classique - Paru chez ECM New Series le 17 juin 2022
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Anderson: In Liebliche Blaue, Alleluia & The Stations of the Sun
Vladimir Jurowski, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Carolin Widmann, Wiener Philharmonic Orchestra
Classique - Paru chez London Philharmonic Orchestra le 1 mars 2016
24-Bit 96.0 kHz - Stereo -
Grammont sélection 7
Classique - Paru chez Musiques Suisses le 27 janv. 2015
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Enescu: Violin Concerto & Fantaisie for Piano & Orchestra
Carolin Widmann, Luiza Borac, NDR Radiophilharmonie, Peter Ruzicka
Classique - Paru chez CPO le 4 févr. 2022
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo