Celebrating the centenary of the Mozartfest Würzburg, Jörg Widmann opens its 2021 festival, conducting the Camerata Salzburg and soloists Renaud Capuçon and Gérard Caussé in two special concerts featuring Mozart’s own historic instruments on 28 and 29 May. The programme includes Mozart’s Fantasia in F minor, KV 608 (arr. Hermann Zilcher), Sinfonia Concertante for violin, viola and orchestra, KV 364, the Symphony No. 41 ​’Jupiter’, KV 551, and Widmann’s Con Brio. 

The opening concert on 28 May will be recorded and broadcast by Bayerischer Rundfunk/​BR Klassik and streamed online at 8:05pm CET, with the second concert on 29 May also being streamed online on the festival’s website at 8pm CET.

Following Prague, Jörg Widmann makes a very welcome return to Budapest for two sold-out concerts with audience, play-directing the Budapest Festival Orchestra on 4 and 5 June (both at 7:45pm CET). The programme features Widmann’s arrangement of Mendelssohn’s ​‘Andante’ (from the Clarinet Sonata, MWV Q15), his own works Freie Stücke, Con Brio, and 180 Beats Per Minute, concluding with Mendelssohn’s Symphony No. 1, op. 11.