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"Impulsive and rich in contrast - simply fantastic": The second part of Antje Weithaas' recording of all of Beethoven's violin sonatas is just as enthusiastically received by critics as her debut in Berlin's Pierre Boulez Saal.
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.
Herman Severin Løvenskiold, Ouverture to Schiller's tragedy “The Maid of Orléans”
Robert Schumann, Ouvertüre, Scherzo und Finale E-Dur op. 52
Manfred Trojahn, Concerto for Violin and Orchestra (new version)
Georges Enescu, Romanian Rhapsody Nr. 1 op. 11
Antje Weithaas, violin
Duisburger Philharmoniker
Axel Kober, conductor
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Trio in C major for piano, violin and violoncello, KV 548
Dmitri Schostakowitsch, Piano Trio No. 1 in C minor, Op. 8
Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy, Piano trio No. 2 in C minor, Op. 66
Marie-Elisabeth Hecker, violoncello
Martin Helmchen, piano
Gideon Klein, Partita für Streichorchester, Mvt 2
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Violin concerto No. 5 in A major KV 219
Ludwig van Beethoven, Symphony No. 4 in B-flat major, Op. 60
Antje Weithaas, Solistin und Leitung
Philharmonisches Orchester Bremerhaven
Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy, String quintet No. 1 in A major, Op. 18
Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy, A Midsummer Night’s Dream Op. 21, Overture
Richard Wagner, Overture to "The Flying Dutchman"
Ludwig van Beethoven, Triple Concerto for piano, violin and violon cello C major op. 56
Orchester der Komischen Oper
Ariel Zuckermann, conductor
Dmitri Schostakowitsch, Two pieces for string quartet - Adagio
Mieczysław Weinberg, Concertino for Violin and String Orchestra, Op. 42
Joseph Haydn, Die sieben letzte Worte unseres Erlösers am Kreuze Hob. XX/1A & B
Kammerakademie Potsdam
Giuseppe Verdi, String Quartet in E minor
Robert Schumann, Piano Quintet in E flat major, Op. 44
Chiara Sannicandro, violin
Sarina Zickgraf, viola
Isabel Markevic, viola
Paul Handschke, violoncello
Oliver Schnyder, piano
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 2023/24 season with concerts at Marie-Elisabeth Hecker’s and Martin Helmchen’s new Fliessen Festival and at the Schubertiade. She continues her musical partnership with harpsichordist Mahan Esfahani in three concerts at the Wigmore Hall and at the Lammermuir Festival. Other highlights include concerts with Ensemble Resonanz, Symphonieorchester Vorarlberg, Philharmonie Zuidnederland, Camerata Bern and Kammerakademie Potsdam. With the Duisburger Philharmoniker under Axel Kober, she will premiere the new version of Manfred Trojahn’s Violin Concerto. She will make her debut in the Pierre Boulez Saal in a duo recital with Dénes Várjon. In trio concerts with Marie-Elisabeth Hecker and Martin Helmchen, she will also appear at the Oberstdorfer Musiksommer and the Schwetzinger SWR Festspiele.
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 several new projects including their play-conduct academy.
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.
2023/2024 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)
“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, 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