For more than thirty years now, these seven talented musicians have been moving back and forth between Johann Strauss and Frank Sinatra, between Shostakovich and Prince, or even passionately from Schubert to their favourite Queen.
The solemn grandeur of the one side is as unimportant to her as the supposed banality of the other. But Strauss – whom Brahms, Wagner and Verdi, as well as the craftsmen and the girls from the suburbs (and even a Gershwin) adored – was the forefather of nonchalant dalliance between the chairs. Strauss was the first to produce hits by the metre, he hired an arranger so that he could work faster and realised that, together with his brothers, he could reproduce his sound worldwide. He was the first to undercut E and U and became a mass phenomenon as the Waltz King – the tills never rang sweeter. In »Strau$$«, Mnozil Brass really reveal everything about Strauss. Even the last thing. In the end, all that remains is the naked truth.
PERFORMERS
Mnozil Brass brass ensemble
Thomas Gansch trumpet, flugelhorn
Robert Rother trumpet, flugelhorn
Roman Rindberger trumpet, flugelhorn
Gerhard Füssl trumpet
Leonhard Paul trombone, bass trumpet
Zoltán Kiss tenor trombone, alto trombone
Wilfried Brandstötter f-tuba
PROGRAM
Strau$$ – Ein Tänzchen zwischen den Stühlen
