This CD includes octets for strings and winds by Schubert and Widmann. They were performed at the Spannungen Festival in 2009. Widmann’s work is a personal homage to Schubert and was commissioned by Spannungen in 2004, premiered in the same year.

Jörg Widmann himself is playing the clarinet in both performances, recorded in June 2009.

Contents:
CD 1 [62:01]
Franz Schubert
- Octet for four clarinet, bassoon, horn, string quartet and double bass in F major D 803
Jörg Widmnann (clarinet); Dag Jensen (bassoon); Sibylle Mahni (horn); Isabelle van Keulen, Veronika Eberle (violins); Rachel Roberts (viola); Tanja Tetzlaff (cello; Yasunori Kawahara (double bass)

CD 2 [25:48]
Jörg Widmann
- Octet for clarinet, bassoon, horn, string quartet and double bass (World Premiere)
Jörg Widmnann (clarinet); Dag Jensen (bassoon); Sibylle Mahni (horn); Carolin Widmann, Florian Donderer (violins); Hanna Weinmeister (viola); Gustav Rivinius (cello); Yasunori Kawahara (double bass)