Mozart
and the Tailor
Strings
& Glass - the art of tradition
Vienna
Glass Armonica Duo and Spielmusik Schönfeldinger
One
of Europe's most renowned chamber music ensembles performing
in concert with one of Austria's finest traditional folk music
groups?
Christa
and Gerald Schönfeldinger, both completed their studies in
violin in Vienna, founded the Vienna Glass Armonica Duoin
1991, and today are an integral part of the European concert
scene. Gerald, however, also descends from the wide-ranging
folk music dynasty known as the Schönfeldinger-Musikanten,
from Bernstein in the Austrian province of Burgenland, which
has been performing entertainment music at the highest level
of quality since 1839.
About
the Programme:
The
programme begins with purely classical music on the Glass
Armonica and Verrophon: Mozart's brilliant late work, the
Adagio for glass armonica KV 617a, Antonio Vivaldi's
"Largo" from "Vier Jahreszeiten", the
"Steirischen Tänze" by Josef Lanner or the
"Norwegischen Tänze" composed by
Eduard Grieg.
With
the first piece after the interval, "Unterm
Vogelbeerbaum", the artists paint a musical picture of a
popular Austrian folk-dance, the Landler, performed on
gespielt auf glass armonika, two violins and contrabass,
Imagine a beautiful summer's day: you breathe in the fragrance
of hay as you lie "under the rowan tree". To enjoy
the second composition, you may as well remain lying in the
long grass as you listen to Josef Strauss' evocative
tone-picture of "The Dragonfly" ("Die
Libelle").
Then
it's time to wake up with the fast polka
"Aufgeweckt" by Karl Schönfeldinger. Karl Schönfeldinger's
compositions take you through the rest of the concert,
performed by the Schönfeldingers on stringed instruments only.
If
W.A.Mozart and Karl Schönfeldinger were in the audience, they
would both be listening with enjoyment and smiling... but
maybe they are.
 For
this reason it's not a far leap from W. A. Mozart
to
Karl Schönfeldinger (1897 - 1979), the village
musician,
farmer and tailor, whose admirers called
him
the "Strauss of Bernstein". He succeeded in
combining
the flavour of the melodies of imperial
Vienna
with his own processes of musical
development
so as to create, with tenderness
and
love, something genuine of his own that
manifested
the very essence of music.
About
the Programme:
The
programme begins with purely classical music on the Glass
Armonica and Verrophon: Mozart's brilliant late work, the
Adagio for glass armonica KV 617a, Antonio Vivaldi's
"Largo" from "Vier Jahreszeiten", the
"Steirischen Tänze" by Josef Lanner or the
"Norwegischen Tänze" composed by
Eduard Grieg.
With
the first piece after the interval, "Unterm
Vogelbeerbaum", the artists paint a musical picture of a
popular Austrian folk-dance, the Landler, performed on
gespielt auf glass armonika, two violins and contrabass,
Imagine a beautiful summer's day: you breathe in the fragrance
of hay as you lie "under the rowan tree". To enjoy
the second composition, you may as well remain lying in the
long grass as you listen to Josef Strauss' evocative
tone-picture of "The Dragonfly" ("Die
Libelle").
Then
it's time to wake up with the fast polka
"Aufgeweckt" by Karl Schönfeldinger. Karl Schönfeldinger's
compositions take you through the rest of the concert,
performed by the Schönfeldingers on stringed instruments only.
If
W.A. Mozart and Karl Schönfeldinger were in the audience,
they would both be listening with enjoyment and smiling... but
maybe they are.
More
informations about Spielmusik
Schönfeldinger >>
www.kapelle-schoenfeldinger.info
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