Nach(t)konzert by Widmann, Sib 17 Diċ 2022, Minn (2022/2022), Alte Oper, Frankfurt am Main, Germany

The remote, the foreign, the "ghostly spooky element" exerts a special attraction on Jörg Widmann. With Schubert's "Winterreise" in mind, he composed "Sieben Abgesänge auf Eine dead Linde" in 1997 to the words of Diana Kempff. "Her poetry is an expression of an obviously deeply tormented soul and often comes across as whimsical and whimsical," says the composer about the writer, who died young. The “normal” also remains the exception in the “Sphinx Sayings and Riddle Canons” – studies that allow voice, piano and clarinet to go beyond the limits of expectation.