Vier Jahreszeiten im Janoska Style - Kufstein

Antonio Vivaldi's Four Seasons is probably one of the most famous works of Western music. It consists of twelve tone paintings in which Vivaldi makes ingenious use of his own invented three-movement concerto form for his tone-painting intentions. No composer has captured the typical scenery of each season more inventively: from the soundscape of nature, the birdsong and the rumbling of thunder, to the seasonal pleasures (wine festivals, ice skating etc.) and the extreme temperatures of summer and winter, whose effect on people Vivaldi depicted in drastic tones (fatigue in summer, shivering and chattering teeth in the winter cold).

The Janoska Ensemble chose this monumental, timelessly beautiful and important work carefully for its fourth album: on the one hand, because - in keeping with its own "Janoska style" and thus the credo of improvisation - baroque music per se is ideally suited for virtuoso realisation. On the other hand, the genre was just as decisive for the four virtuosos, as these are four highly demanding violin concertos that have always been firmly anchored in the repertoire of the ensemble's two violinists.

Now the ensemble has set itself the task of building a bridge between Vivaldi's masterpiece and its own modern interpretation and - by adding the art of improvisation, which has fallen into oblivion in classical music - creating a new, unprecedented synergy between Vivaldi's composition and modern rhythms and harmonies!

It wouldn't be the Janoska Ensemble if this fusion of original and interpretation were sufficient: in addition and quasi interwoven into Vivaldi's concert programme, each of the four virtuoso musicians composes his "own" season in a single movement, thus combining the selected season with his own instrument. It is no coincidence, for example, that Julius chooses autumn and the associated scenario of hunting, harvest thanksgiving and peasant dancing for his instrument, the double bass.

Tickets available from Kufstein Town Hall, TVB Kufsteinerland and all Ö-Ticket sales points, as well as online.

Ticket prices: Cat. A. 26,- / reduced 20,- | Cat. B. 20,- / reduced 13,-