"WE ARE ANGELS OURSELVES" 
A Christmassy exploration tour through the universe. 

Christmas is the celebration of love and reconciliation. So let’s start at loving ourselves. 
The narcissistic wound inflicted on us by Kopernicus and Kepler, Charles Darwin and Siegmund Freud will be cured by the red-hot “Spring String theory”.
As the whole cosmos, our hearts as well as the stars, vibrates in the rhythm of the music. Hooray! God, the world and we are pure energy, spiritual beings – like the angels, about as tangible as music and also as beautiful. 
The Christmas Oratory of the Spring String Quartet makes the Heavens tingle and the angels sing. Michael Radanovics has composed the musical score for them and Harald Friedl has written the libretto. The miracle of Christmas appears in a completely new cheerful candlelight. 


Christian Wirth, violin and vocals
Marcus Wall, violin and vocals
Julian Gillesberger, viola and vocals
Stephan Punderlitschek, cello and vocals


For fourteen years the four gentlemen of the Upper Austrian SPRING STRING
QUARTET have been performing together in various concert halls in Austria, Europe and in the USA and in doing so they have been smashing all common clichés concerning string music and redefining the artistic forms of expression of the classic string quartet. Several CDs illustrate the productivity of this ensemble. Ever since the cooperation with the American jazz legend Lee Konitz, at the latest, the SPRING STRING QUARTET ranks among the leading jazz-rock-classical-crossover string quartets of Europe.
One of the highlights of their career so far was their debut at the Carnegie Hall in New York in 2007. 
Since the beginning of 2009 the “Hells Angels of Virtuosity“ have been giving concerts regularly with the German singer-songwriter Konstantin Wecker (e.g. in Munich, in Vienna, in Berlin and several other places) 
The ensemble has also repeatedly cooperated with the Israeli-American composer and tenor saxophonist Ohad Talmor and other musicians from the New Yorker jazz scene.


Discography:
Train Songs (2002)
Blue Smoke on Johann Strauss (2004)
Inventions (with Lee Konitz and Ohad Talmor; 2006)
Stürmische Zeiten mein Schatz (Stormy Times, My Dear, live, with Konstantin Wecker, 2011)
Highway Stars (2011)


Info: www.ssq.at