- Julian Gillesberger - viola
- Stefan Punderlitschek - violoncello
- Marcus Wall - violin
- Christian Wirth - violin
PROGRAM
"Highway Stars"
For the past 10 years the SPRING STRING QUARTET has been shattering all wide-spread clich�s concerning string music and has re-defined the artistic modes of expression of a classic string quartet.
This innovative musical organism consisting of four musicians who each have a highly individual artistic personality and who have grown into a unique body of sound, play evergreen classics composed by musicians of everlasting greatness like Deep Purple, Police and many others, as well as commissioned pieces and their own compositions. All pieces in their programme are characterised by an enormous amount of capricious creativity combined with a fascinatingly infectious groove. Their brilliant technique, extravagant wit and their incomparable humour, which is complemented by their enormously entertaining stage presentation, guarantee the audience a real treat.
From the program:
Deep Purple: "Highway Star"
Michael Radanovics: "A Neapolitan sixth chord ", "Wie weit
weit"
Herwig Neugebauer: "Mazurka for a sentimental cowboy"
Billy Joel: "Root Beer Rag"
Ohad Talmor: "Ober Austria Groove"
u.a.m.
A press review ran:
"Weird and yet perfect violin groove, superbly presented.
(...) The four musicians shatter the myth of awkwardness which commonly surrounds contemporary music. Some commissioned works by young composers are masterfully presented. The audience in the sold out middle hall of the Brucknerhaus breaks into enthusiastic applause whenever the quartet interprets classics of rock music (...)"
Oberösterreichische Nachrichten, 25.4.07
"A concert hall filled with raving fans,(...) ?Cheerful and sentimental sounds alternate throughout the program; the fans were roused by loud funky sounds and then calmed down again by almost meditative tunes (...)"
Österreich, 25.4.07
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"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.
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Former Programms / Recordings:
"Train Songs" (2002, CCn'C Records, Germany):
with songs of Tom Waits, John Coltrane, Ian Anderson, Bon Jovi, a.o.
"Blue Smoke On Johann Strauss" (2004, Extraplatte, Austria):
compositions based on themes by the king of waltz and songs by Frank Zappa, Bob Marley, a.o.
