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Press Reviews
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Festival Forfest 2006. The Czech Republic
(...)the amazing composition by the Austrian composer Peter Ablinger “Weiss“
for flute, clarinet, violin, cello and piano under the interpretation of the
Pierrot Lunaire Ensemble from Vienna. Ablinger’s compositions astounded the
audience with its overall affiance, its use of the most refined timbres and
its perfect use of pauses and stillness. There were moments when I was sorry
that modern technology is unable to record the “held breaths” of the
audience(...)
(...)The most exceptional ensemble interpreters was the already mentioned
Pierrot Lunaire Ensemble from Vienna. Jan Grossmann
Pierrot Lunaire Ensemble
Wien
®
in Odessa, Festival Two Days and Two Nights
The Pierrot Lunaire Ensemble Wien
®
was the leader among
instrumental groups.
Musicians: appeal to Arnold Shonberg - famous person
of the past, author of the well known piece - "Pierrot Lunaire", as well as
so called New Vienna school founded by him in the beginning of XX century.
In their Motherland Pierrot Lunaire Ensemble Wien - is champion, researcher of undeveloped
territories: they play pieces by authors, who are seldom performed as well
as by young composers, they are very attentive to the music from Eastern
Europe, Mediterranean, Far East. They were true to themselves in Odessa.
Four works by contemporary composers were performed, it was deep,
meditative, charming music. newspaper "Den'"
Pierrot Lunaire Ensemble
Wien
®, Beyond Austria
The balance of trade seems most smooth between Austria and the United States
if the
product is classical music. Six young members of the Pierrot Lunaire
Ensemble Wien
®
(named for the atonal expressionist monodrama from 1912 by Viennese composer
Arnold Schoenberg) triumphed in their U.S. debut Monday at the Austrian
Embassy. The group has recently reached beyond its borders, and on Monday
performed music by the Americans George Crumb and Morton Feldman. The
ensemble kept a firm rein on works by each from the 60s that still seem out
of control to some. In Crumb's "Eleven Echoes of Autumn, the considered
approach of flutist Silvia Gelos, clarinetist Barbara Schuch, violinist
Florian Wilscher and pianist Gustavo Balanesco missed none of its
now-classic sonic trickery: swishy breath blown over (not into) an alto
flute mouthpiece, a moaning clarinet glissando, plucked piano strings,
violin strumming -- all magically coalescing. Cellist Alexander Timotic and
Balanesco traversed Feldman's epigrammatic "Durations II" seamlessly, as the
ensemble indulged in its improvisatory freedom. The playing was most radiant
on the tonally elegant, jazz-spiced neoclassic works of Austrian composer
Gottfried von Einem (1918-1996): "Verdehr" Trio (clarinet, violin and
piano), String Trio, Op. posth. (violist Elisaveta Staneva, violin and
cello), and his Quartet, Op. 85 (flute and strings). C. Porter ,
Washington Post
Pierrot Lunaire Ensemble Wien
®: Successful end of season at Musikverein...
The Pierrot Lunaire Ensemble Wien
® , can be considered as one of the most flexible
formations not only for modern music. Its repertoire ranges from solo to
chamber orchestra pieces, intentionally focusing on the under-represented,
encompassing former personae non gratae as well as young Austrian talents.
Walter Weidringer, Die Presse
Combining music by Klaus Lang (very quiet), Wolfgang Mitterer (very lound)
and Erich Urbanner
(rather stern) in a concert is not only rather unusual, but also shows the
courage of the Pierrot Lunaire Ensemble Wien
® to go beyond the prevailing bounds
of the scene. (Falter)
Brilliant musicians play a superlative chamber music concert
The programm which requires of its interpreters both extreme mastery of the
instruments and
concentration in ensemble playing almost beyond imagination has found
its ideal interpreters:
some who got involved in this piece implicitly, virtually “without a net”,
who were able to relate its expressiveness and its beauty and in this manner
achieved considerable success.Edwin
Baumgartner, Wiener Zeitung
States of Mind ... In a small cast, the young , extremely successful Pierrot
Lunaire Ensemble Wien
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presents a varied CD, which has “a flair of unified non-uniformity”: eight
pieces by eight female composers, various styles, atmospheric & sound
impressions – in this way the ensemble can reveal its range of expression.
Extremely worth listening to. Musik Aktuell CD Club
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