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Spirited and finely honed: Antje Weithaas' opening CD of her recording of all the Beethoven violin sonatas is receiving rave reviews.
Congratulations to Antje Weithaas and Maximilian Hornung on winning the BBC Music Magazine Award!
Ahead of Antje Weithaas' round birthday in 2016, we spoke to her about her multi-faceted career as a soloist, chamber musician and teacher, and why she is always looking for something new.
Joseph Haydn, Symphony C minor Hob. I:95
Karl Amadeus Hartmann, Concerto funebre for violin soloist and string orchestra
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Symphony in G minor KV 550 No. 40
Antje Weithaas, Solistin und Leitung
Bielefelder Philharmoniker
Ludwig van Beethoven, Symphonie Nr. 6 in F major, Op. 68 Pastorale
Antje Weithaas, violin
Anna Reszniak, violin
Barbara Buntrock, viola
Jan Larsen, viola
Julian Steckel, violoncello
Tanja Tetzlaff, violoncello
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, String Quartet in D minor, KV 421
Johannes Brahms, Piano Quintet in F minor, Op. 34
Florian Donderer, violin
François-Frédéric Guy, piano
Yura Lee, violin
Marie-Elisabeth Hecker, violoncello
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Trio in E major for piano, violin and violoncello, KV 542
Ernest Chausson, Concerto for violin, piano and string quartet D major Op 21
Martin Helmchen, piano
Leoš Janáček, String Quartet No. 1 'Kreutzer sonata'
Olli Mustonen, Threnos in memoriam Lars Vogt
Arnold Schönberg, "Transfigured Night" Op. 4
Hanna Weinmeister, violin
Volker Jacobsen, viola
Gustav Rivinius, violoncello
Olli Mustonen, composition
Christian Tetzlaff, violin
Elisabeth Kufferath, violin
Johannes Brahms, Piano trio No. 2 C Major op. 87
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Clarinet Quintet in A major, K. 581
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Quintet movement in F major KV 90 Appendix
Sabine Meyer, clarinet
Reiner Wehle, clarinet
Byol Kang, violin
Pauline Sachse, viola
Lili Boulanger, D'un matin de printemps
Franz Schubert, Piano quintet in A major D 667 "Trout Quintet"
Antonin Dvorak, Piano Quintet No. 2 A major Op. 81
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, String quintett in C minor KV 515
Tobias Feldmann, violin
Timothy Ridout, viola
Harriet Krijgh, violoncello
Johann Sebastian Bach, Suite for Violoncello solo No 2 D minor, BWV1008
Johann Sebastian Bach, Chaconne from the Partita No. 2 D minor for solo violin, BWV 1004
Olivier Messiaen, Quatuor pour la fin du temps
Sebastian Manz, clarinet
Camille Saint-Saëns, The Carnival of the Animals
Int. Künstler des Kammermusikfestivals “Fliessen”
Stephen Waarts, violin
Robert Schumann, Three Romances for Cello and Piano, Op. 94
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Rondo in D major for solo piano, KV 485
Jörg Widmann, 24 Duos for violin and violoncello (selection)
Jörg Widmann, "Idyll und Abgrund" for solo piano
Jörg Widmann, "Fantasie" for solo clarinet
Oliver Wille, violin
Tomoko Akasaka, viola
Stefan Heinemeyer, violoncello
Jörg Widmann, clarinet
Dénes Várjon, piano
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Sonata for Piano and Violin in G major KV 379
György Kurtág, Tre Pezzi per violino e pianoforte, op. 14e
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Sonate Es-Dur für Violine und Klavier KV 380
Claude Debussy, Violin Sonata in G minor, L 140
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Sonata for piano and violin B flat major KV 454
Antje Weithaas is one of the great violinists of our time. FonoForum
Brimful of energy, Antje Weithaas’ brings her compelling musical intelligence and technical mastery to every detail of the music. Her charisma and stage presence are captivating, but never overshadow the works themselves. She has a wide-ranging 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.
Antje Weithaas begins the 2022/23 season with concerts at Leif Ove Andsnes‘s Rosendal Chamber Music Festival and in her hometown Cottbus at the Brandenburgische Sommerkonzerte as well as on tour with the Bundesjugendorchester under Marc Albrecht, during which she will play Brahms Double Concerto with Maximilian Hornung at the Festspiele Mecklenburg-Vorpommern and Young Euro Classic Berlin amongst others. Other highlights include concerts with the MDR Symphony Orchestra, the Hofer Symphoniker, the Residentie Orkest, the Tokyo Symphony Orchestra, the Bochumer Symphoniker, the WKO Heilbronn, the Bielefelder Philharmoniker, the Schleswig-Holsteinisches Sinfonieorchester as well as the Hallé Orchestra Manchester. In the chamber music realm, she continues a new musical partnership with harpsichordist Mahan Esfahani in concerts at the Traunsteiner Sommerkonzerte and the Alte Oper Frankfurt. In a trio concert with Marie-Elisabeth Hecker and Martin Helmchen, she will kick off the new festival of these two artists.
Through her infectious zest for communication, Antje Weithaas‘ reputation for inspiring play-lead concerts with international renowned chamber orchestras is rapidly growing. Having been the Camerata Bern’s artistic director for almost ten years, she was responsible for the ensemble’s musical profile, leading large works such as Beethoven’s symphonies, and recording music 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 an immediate re-invitation.
Antje Weithaas produced a reference recording of Beethoven and Berg’s violin concertos in 2013 with the Stavanger Symphony Orchestra under Steven Sloane (CAvi-music). The Arcanto Quartet’s highly acclaimed recordings were released on the Harmonia Mundi label and include works by Bartók, Brahms, Ravel, Dutilleux, Debussy, Schubert and Mozart. The label cpo released her recordings of Max Bruch’s complete works for violin and orchestra with the NDR Radio Philharmonic under Hermann Bäumer to great acclaim. There were rave reviews for Antje Weithaas’ project for CAvi, the complete recordings of Johann Sebastian Bach’s solo sonatas and partitas and Eugène Ysaÿe’s solo sonatas. Two CDs were released in 2019: a recording of the violin concerto by Robert Schumann and the double concerto by Johannes Brahms with the NDR Radiophilharmonie, cellist Maximilian Hornung and conductor Andrew Manze, which recently received the BBC Music Magazine’s “Concerto” Award, and a recording of the violin concerto and concert rhapsody by Khachaturian with the Staatsorchester Rheinische Philharmonie and conductor Daniel Raiskin. Spring 2023 saw the release of Vol. I of the planned complete recording of Ludwig van Beethoven's violin sonatas with pianist Dénes Várjon on the CAvi-music label.
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 in 2019. After teaching at the Universität der Künste Berlin, Antje Weithaas became a professor of violin at the Hochschule für Musik “Hanns Eisler” in 2004. She plays on a 2001 Peter Greiner violin.
2022/2023 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)
“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
Violinistas compositores. Ysaÿe neobarroco | Antje Weithaas
Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy: Concerto D minor for Violin and Strings with Kammerakademie Potsdam
Antje Weithaas, Dénes Várjon
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