Sun. 24.November

21:00 Cech/Mütter/Bramböck/Steiner

Reckless and almost delirious - philosophical trash - buffoonery full of the lamest and most outrageous antics - overflowing with erudite horrors... this, more or less, is what the learned of the period (tabloids were not yet in existence) thought of the pantheist philosopher Baruch Spinoza, who was born in Amsterdam exactly 364 years ago today

Now, for something completely different: "Es mütterte gar sehr im Gebälk" (It Müttered/mothered/muttered entirely much in the beams). - This is what learned peers (tabloids had since come into existence!) have to say about the panstylistic quartet Bramböck/Cech/Mütter/Steiner, which had their first glimpse of the musical half-world twilight at Porgy & Bess exactly one year ago today.

Fully lucid, unstrained or relaxed contemporaneity is hard to come by these days. So it is all the more commendable when four recognized characters (the contributions they have made to world culture are already well known and require no further explanations here) persevere -- despite all the deprecating commentaries -- in creating unpretentiously beautiful and intimate chamber music (notwithstanding their occasional propensity for manhandling). Acculturated in totally different ways to jazz and serious music, these four improvisers/composers revel in their often contra-centrifugal energies. Yet they all set their sights far
beyond the existing stylistic labels, which often provides enough of an anchor to prevent misunderstandings. In addition, they construct a loose net of compositional subtitles and commentaries within their widely stretched improvisations to keep them from going adrift.

And now for something completely different: My heart comes undone when I catch the sound of this unfortunately much-too-lofty philosophy.
(Herder über Spinoza) KP
Admission: AS 120.-


24:00 PianoNightLine Michael Kneihs Trio

Tonight Michael Kneihs, who conquered his Porgy audience with his quartet in September, is returning in a trio configuration, faced with the difficult task of following Cech & Co (another hard act to follow... last month he had to take the stage after Yosuke Yamashita). Along with Schlippenbach and Mitterer, he'll make good use of this NightLine to present his idea of the right way to play piano.
CH
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