Jörg Widmann
Tränen der Musen für Klarinette, Violine und Klavier

Tsotne Zedginidze
Werk für Klavier solo

Tsotne Zedginidze
Sonate für Violine und Klavier

Sergej Prokofjew
Ouvertüre über hebräische Themen

Béla Bartók
Kontraste für Violine, Klarinette und Klavier Sz 111

The violinist Lisa Batiashvili and the composer-clarinettist Jörg Widmann have been friends for many years. This season they are both musical partners of the Berliner Philharmoniker: as Artist- and Composer-in Residence, respectively. For their joint appearance, they have put together a programme that is at once modern and sensuously ear-catching. In Widmann’s early work Tears of the Muses, the voices of the clarinet and the violin seem to merge miraculously into a single shimmering sound. Along with compositions by Sergei Prokofiev and Bela Bartók, there will also be performances of works by Tsotne Zedginidze – a composer born in Georgia in 2009 who Lisa Batiashvili calls “a talent of the century”.