Allegro Vivo Concertos – “Metamorphoses” in Horn and Gars

Last Saturday, the Janoska Ensemble presented its latest program “The Big B’s” as part of Allegro Vivo and got the sold-out courtyard of the Horner Kunsthaus boiling.

With works by Bach, Beethoven, Brahms, Bartok and Brubeck, the four exceptional performers Ondrej, František and Roman Janoska as well as Julius Darva (two violins, piano and double bass) delighted the Horn audience, which also included a delegation from the twin town of Austerlitz. The sponsorship for this concert was taken over by tax consultant Georg Stöger, who also acted as host for friends and employees.

Thunderous applause for string quartet

The next day, the award-winning “Chaos String Quartet” performed a brilliant chamber music concert in the Gertrude Church in Gars. At the beginning you could hear a rarely performed work by Fanny Mendelssohn, who was in no way inferior to her famous brother Felix in terms of talent, but had no opportunities to develop as a composer at the time.

On the occasion of György Ligeti’s 100th birthday, his first string quartet “Metamorphosis nocturne” was performed, which he himself saw in the best tradition of Bela Bartok. Countless timbres and the multi-layered rhythm created great tension in the packed church before after the break Franz Schubert’s most famous string quartet, “Death and the Maiden”, touched and delighted the audience. The chamber music soiree in the wonderful acoustics of the church at the highest level ended with thunderous applause.

Gala concert in the arcade courtyard of the Horner Kunsthaus

As always, a special event is the gala concert in the courtyard of the Kunsthaus, this time on Saturday, August 19, at 8 p.m. This year, proven experts in musical entertainment will meet there under the motto “Groovertimento”: Georg Breinschmid as composer and soloist on the double bass together with violin virtuoso Vahid Khadem-Missagh, who directs the Academia Allegro Vivo. A Mozart divertimento becomes a “groovertimento”, there sounds waltz bliss as experienced by Bartók and Schönberg, and everything combines with fantastic elements by Dvorák, humorous elements by Zemlinsky and compositions by Breinschmid to form a large whole.