Amor Fraternal
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At age 13, Jörg Widmann would leave drafts of music on the kitchen table and ask his younger sister Carolin to try out some non-traditional techniques on the violin. The answer was often the same: “you are crazy”. Decades later, both became sought-after musicians around the world, key figures in the contemporary scene. They perform together at Casa da Música the second Concerto for violin and orchestra - Jörg as the conductor and Carolin as a soloist. In it, the composer explores the numerous timbres and colours of the violin, an instrument he considers the “mouthpiece for the most diverse of human emotions”. The programme is complete with Mendelssohn's Fifth Symphony, written for the 300th anniversary of the Augsburg Confession and which uses the melody of the Lutheran chorale “Ein feste Burg ist unser Gott” - also used by J.S. Bach, 100 years earlier, for the same occasion.
