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It is well known that Herbert Pixner and Thomas Gansch are musical jacks-of-all-trades who process a wide variety of impulses from all over the world. The South Tyrolean multi-instrumentalist Pixner has been successfully maintaining his “project” for years, playing rock’n’roll with the Italo Connection and symphonic music with the Lower Austrian Tonkünstler. Trumpeter Gansch started out in the Vienna Art Orchestra, founded his first band with Gansch and Roses and celebrated triumphs with Mnozil Brass.
On Friday, both presented Alpen &glühen, a joint formation with select staff. In addition to the famous Radio String Quartet, jazz greats Lukas Kranzelbinder (double bass) and Manu Delago (percussion) played. Loved the journey around the world and across genres.
All possible sources are used, classic, pop, jazz, alpine and world music. This brings variety, but carries the risk of arbitrariness. Much is touched upon, some would have deserved deepening. But there are also tasty treats. “Coming and Going” by cellist Sophie Abraham is a melancholy, withdrawn song without words. Pixner’s “Südost” leaves room for virtuoso improvisation, with him on the clarinet and Gansch’s fantastic trumpet.
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