Concert

Chamber music by Jean Françaix, Alfred Schnittke and Werner Pirchner

With their unconventional programmes, the three musicians Martin Yavryan, Nikolaus Messner and Isabel Gabbe, who are active in Tyrol, repeatedly demonstrate a pronounced joy of discovery. This time, the musical expedition leads into partly unknown territory from France via Germany to Tyrol.

The musical world of Jean Françaix, who learned his compositional craft from the legendary Nadia Boulanger, is dazzling and fascinating, rhythmically complex and characterised by subtle humour.

Alfred Schnittke’s music is expressive and often impetuous, gestural and immediately gripping, oscillating virtuosically between tonality and atonality. The Russian-German composer is one of the greats of the 20th century. The same can be said of the Tyrolean Werner Pirchner: originally coming from a jazz and practical background, he was able to gain a foothold in the classical music world with his haunting works and inspire a wide audience. Pirchner was also a critical spirit who helped Tyrol, which was almost drowning in the post-fascist stink of the post-war period, to take a giant leap towards modernity.

Martin Yavryan (violin)
Nikolaus Messner (violoncello)
Isabel Gabbe (piano)