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Antje Weithaas' recording of the Violin Concerto No. 2 by Pēteris Vasks, which she recorded together with the Camerata Bern, was released at the end of September.
Congratulations to Antje Weithaas: The complete recording of the ten Beethoven violin sonatas with Dénes Várjon is honoured with the German Record Critics' Award 2024.
Congratulations to Antje Weithaas and Maximilian Hornung on winning the BBC Music Magazine Award!
Jörg Widmann, Jagdquartett
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Sinfonia Concertante E-flat major KV 364
Jörg Widmann, Aria
Antonín Dvořák, Serenade for Strings in E Major Op. 22
Antje Weithaas, Solistin und Leitung
Georgy Kovalev, viola
Amsterdam Sinfonietta
Béla Bartók, Konzert für Violine und Orchester Nr. 1 Sz 36
Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy, Symphonie No. 3 in A minor, Op. 56 “Scottish”
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, „Cassazione“ No. 2
Antje Weithaas, violin
Hessisches Staatsorchester Wiesbaden
Gerard Korsten, conductor
Ludwig van Beethoven, Trio B major, Op.11 'Gassenhauer'
Johannes Brahms, Piano quartet in C minor, Op. 60
Veronika Hagen, viola
Mischa Meyer, violoncello
Sabine Meyer, clarinet
Michail Lifits, piano
Franz Schubert, Streichtriosatz B-Dur D 471
Robert Schumann, Piano Quintet in E flat major, Op. 44
Byol Kang, violin
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Quintettsatz F-Dur für Klarinette, Bassetthorn und Streichtrio KV 580b
Franz Schubert, Quartettsatz in C minor, D703
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Clarinet Quintet in A major, K. 581
Reiner Wehle, basset horn
Clara Schumann, March in E-flat major
Julius Otto Grimm, Scherzo in C major, Op. 5 No. 2
Johannes Brahms, Concerto for Violin, Cello and Orchestra in A minor Op. 102
Franz Joseph Haydn, Overture to L'incontro improvviso (The Unexpected Encounter)
Julian Steckel, violoncello
Sinfonieorchester Münster
Henning Ehlert, conductor
Franz Schubert, Piano Trio No. 1 in b-flat Major D 898
Peter Tschaikowsky, Piano Trio A minor Op. 50, “A la mémoire d'un grand artiste”
Marie-Elisabeth Hecker, violoncello
Martin Helmchen, piano
Ludwig van Beethoven, Sonata for Violin and Piano No. 4 in A minor, Op. 23
Witold Lutosławski, Partita for violin and piano
Clara Schumann, Three romances for violin and piano, Op. 22
Camille Saint-Saëns, Sonata for Violin and Piano No. 1 D Minor op. 75
Boris Kusnezow, piano
Béla Bartók, Romanian Folk Dances
Franz Joseph Haydn, Violin Concerto No. 3 in A major Hob.VIIa:3
Camerata Bern
Antje Weithaas goes all out. She interprets Robert Schumann's first violin sonata, a work that could previously be understood as slightly melancholy and a beautiful contribution to domestic music, as music full of loneliness and forlornness. Her ability to evoke hell with a single note immerses the music in the highest emotionality. She not only masters the entire spectrum of creative mastery - she also utilises it mercilessly (…) Antje Weithaas, and this is certain, is not just a violinist, she is a musician, and currently one of the best. rbb Kultur, 13/12/2023
With captivating energy and a fine sense for nuances, Antje Weithaas gives her audience a "stellar hour of music" (FAZ) time and again. Her wide stylistic range and unmistakable musical language are fascinating. Blessed with impressive technical mastery and an enormous gamut of sound, she manages the feat of finding very individual readings of the great masterpieces and yet unpretentiously placing herself at the service of the composer. She has an extensive repertoire that includes the great concertos by Mozart, Beethoven and Schumann, new works such as Jörg Widmann’s Violin Concerto, modern classics by Shostakovich, Prokofiev, Ligeti and Gubaidulina, and lesser performed concertos by Hartmann and Schoeck.
As a soloist, Antje Weithaas has worked with most of Germany’s leading orchestras, including the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, Bamberg Symphony and the major German radio orchestras, numerous major international orchestras such as the Los Angeles Philharmonic, San Francisco Symphony, Philharmonia Orchestra and the BBC Symphony, as well as and the leading orchestras of the Netherlands, Scandinavia, and Asia. She has collaborated with the illustrious conductors Vladimir Ashkenazy, Dmitri Kitayenko, Sir Neville Marriner, Marc Albrecht, Yakov Kreizberg, Sakari Oramo and Carlos Kalmar.
Last season, Antje Weithaas completed the complete recording of Ludwig van Beethoven's violin sonatas with Dénes Várjon as her piano partner on CAvi-music, digitally distributed by Deutsche Grammophon which was honoured with the German Record Critics' Award 2024. Following her debut recital at the Pierre Boulez Saal, she and Dénes Várjon will perform the complete cycle there in May 2025. The two artists will continue to perform the entire cycle next season at the Casals Forum Kronberg and in Budapest, and will also perform Beethoven recitals in Italy.
Antje Weithaas is a sought-after conductor for play-conduct projects with international chamber orchestras. As artistic director of the Camerata Bern, she was responsible for the musical profile of the ensemble for almost ten years, with whom she continues to work regularly and whose next joint recordings on CAvi-music we can look forward to. From the podium of the concertmaster, she has even conducted large-scale works such as Beethoven's symphonies and released recordings of works by Tchaikovsky, Brahms, Mendelssohn and Beethoven. Her concerts as artiste associé of the Orchestre de Chambre de Paris in the 2021/22 season led to several new projects.
In 2013, Antje Weithaas produced a reference recording of the violin concertos by Beethoven and Berg with the Stavanger Symphony Orchestra under Steven Sloane (CAvi-music). The Arcanto Quartet's highly acclaimed recordings with Daniel Sepec, Tabea Zimmermann and Jean-Guihen Queyras, released on the Harmonia Mundi label, include works by Bartók, Brahms, Ravel, Dutilleux, Debussy, Schubert and Mozart. In 2016, her complete recording of Max Bruch's works for violin and orchestra with the NDR Radiophilharmonie under Hermann Bäumer was released on cpo. There was also an enthusiastic response to the complete recording of the solo sonatas and partitas by Johann Sebastian Bach and the solo sonatas by Eugène Ysaÿe as well as Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto and his 3rd String Quartet in an orchestral version with the Camerata Bern (CAvi). Two CDs were released in 2019: a recording of Robert Schumann's Violin Concerto and Johannes Brahms' Double Concerto with the NDR Radiophilharmonie, cellist Maximilian Hornung and conductor Andrew Manze, which won the BBC Music Magazine's “Concerto” Award, and a recording of Khachaturian's Violin Concerto and Concerto Rhapsody with the Staatsorchester Rheinische Philharmonie and conductor Daniel Raiskin.
Antje Weithaas began playing the violin at the age of four and later studied at the Hochschule für Musik “Hanns Eisler” Berlin with Professor Werner Scholz. She won the Kreisler Competition in Graz in 1987 and the Bach Competition in Leipzig in 1988, as well as the Joseph Joachim International Violin Competition Hanover in 1991. Together with Oliver Wille, she has taken over the artistic leadership of the renowned Joachim competition. She taught as a professor at the Universität der Künste Berlin for several years before moving to the Hanns Eisler Academy of Music in 2004. Since then, she has become a world-class violin teacher. She plays on a 2001 Peter Greiner violin.
2024/2025 season
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Duo with Dénes Várjon (piano)L. v. Beethoven:Violinsonate G-Dur op. 96 „Frühlingssonate"Violinsonate D-Dur op. 12 Nr. 1Violinsonate A-Dur op. 30 Nr. 1Auch als kompletter Sonaten-Zyklus verfügbar.
Trio with Marie-Elisabeth Hecker (cello) & Martin Helmchen (piano)F. Schubert: Piano Trio No. 1 B-flat major, Op. 99 D 898 P. Tschaikowsky: Piano Trio A minor, Op. 50
(for the season of 2024/25)
“A work whose essence Antje Weithaas captures so surely that it should appeal to traditional music lovers as well as listeners open to more modern sounds.“
Aachener Zeitung, Pedro Obiera, 14/11/2024 (on the new release of Pēteris Vasks' Violin Concerto No. 2 with the Camerata Bern)
“The soloist's incredible and highly poetic virtuosity was especially fascinating.”
Rheinische Post, Ingo Hoddick, 26/4/2024 (on the new version of Manfred Trojahn's concerto for violin and orchestra)
“Weithaas and Várjon are stimulating interpreters of these wonderful works: you learn, listen and love as never before.”
Gramophone, Rob Cowan, June 2024 (Beethoven sonatas Vol. III)
“Weithaas' and Várjon’s cycle will be one to reckon with.”
Gramophone, Andrew Farach-Colton, 5/1/2024 (Beethoven sonatas Vol. II)
“Antje Weithaas and Dénes Várjon deliver a spirited result above all through their inspiring musicality and their playing of absolute precision and great concentration.”
Radio France, Emilie Munera/Rodolphe Bruneau-Boulmier, 18/5/2023 (Beethoven sonatas Vol. I: record of the day)
"The wonderful Antje Weithaas is able to develop the enormously demanding but not actually virtuoso solo part out of the line with such precious as well as unpretentious clarity - and raise the question why this magnificent piece has not made it into the repertoire."
Leipziger Volkszeitung, Peter Korfmacher, 8/11/2022 - on Szymanowski's Violin Concerto with the MDR Symphony Orchestra
"The violinist Antje Weithaas is simply prodigious in Beethoven's Violin Concerto, thanks to her playing which avoids all flashiness, internalizing Beethoven's sublime work to the maximum."
On-Mag, Michel Jakubowicz, 24/04/2022
"Antje Weithaas caresses and revels [in Schumann's Violin Concerto] with a devoted spontaneity and radian flair that brings this exclusive score fully to life in a way unmatched on disk."
The Strad, Julian Haylock, April 2020
Antje Weithaas, Dénes Várjon - Beethoven: I. Allegro [Violin Sonata No. 5 in F Major, Op. 24]
Violinistas compositores. Ysaÿe neobarroco | Antje Weithaas
Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy: Concerto D minor for Violin and Strings with Kammerakademie Potsdam
Antje Weithaas, Camerata Bern
CAvi, 2024, HD&SD digital release only
Antje Weithaas, Dénes Várjon
CAvi-music, 2024, 8553508
CAvi-music, 2023
CAvi-music, 2023, 8553512
Antje Weithaas, Staatsorchester Rheinische Philharmonie, Daniel Raiskincpo, 2019, 555 0932
Antje Weithaas, Maximilian Hornung, NDR Radiophilharmonie, Andrew Manzecpo, 2019, 555 172-2
Antje Weithaas, Camerata BernCAvi-music, 2018, 8553393
Antje WeithaasCAvi-music, 8553381, 2017