(...) With the exceptional Viennese musicians of Trombone Attraction, the audience now experienced that there is only one thing that sounds better than one trombone alone: four trombones. The concert was played on Tuesday in the Hagen Stadthalle and on Wednesday in the Sauerlandtheater Arnsberg. We attended the concert in Hagen.
Four trombones are known from the chorale of Protestant church music, they sound solemn, a little tinny and often archaic, because it is not easy to intonate the movement cleanly. When the four musicians of Trombone Attraction come on stage, however, the audience has to listen around. So elegant, supple, humorous and flexible can this instrument be high four? The trombonists Stefan Obmann, Christian Poitinger, Martin Riener and Raphael Stieger come from the famous Vienna Brass Connection, they play in the big orchestras of their hometown, some of them are also professors. For the Sauerland Autumn they have chosen a work by the famous Dutch composer Jan Koetsier, the Concertino for four trombones and string orchestra.
The piece interweaves two temporal-stylistic narrative levels. The strings establish a familiar world of classical music, into which the four trombones, with many elements borrowed from jazz, sometimes enter into dialogue and sometimes happily stomp in. This is a virtuoso ride from hell with breakneck runs, great effects and again and again heart-touching cantilenas. Especially the slow movement with its great solo sounds like an interweaving of song and prayer, simply wonderful. The audience reacted enthusiastically, and Trombone Attraction thanked them with an arrangement of the traditional Swanee River. (...)
- Westfalenpost, journalist Monika Willer
It is the best festival tradition and always a highlight: the guest performance of our long-time friends, the wonderful PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA HAGEN. This year, too, it has a special attraction to offer - in the truest sense of the word: because side by side with the Philharmoniker on stage are four gentlemen who do not call themselves TROMBONE ATTRACTION for nothing. As one reviewer wrote about them so beautifully: "Seven trombones are enough for the end of the world. We know that from the Bible. Four trombones can give music lovers a wonderful evening. We've known that since these four gentlemen formed the quartet Trombone Attraction. This is where art comes from skill." Under the direction of Spanish-born Rodrigo Tomillo, first Kapellmeister and deputy general music director at Theater Hagen since the 2017/2018 season, they will take on the solo part in the "Concertino for four trombones and string orchestra op. 115" by the famous Dutch composer Jan Koetsier (1911-2006). For the "aperitif" there is a piece by the young Ukrainian-Dutch composer Svitlana Azarova "Mover of the Earth, Stopper of the Sun", which was premiered in Paris in 2013. And then after the intermission, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's "Symphony No. 2 in C Minor, Op. 17" will sound the so-called "Little Russian," in which Ukrainian folk songs are interwoven. - A great concert evening awaits the audience. - Text: Sauerland Herbst
24. Oktober 23 | 19:30 Uhr | D – 58095 Hagen | Stadthalle
www.theaterhagen.de
25. Oktober 23 | 19:30 Uhr | D – 59759 Arnsberg | Sauerland Theater (Feauxweg 9)
www.sauerland-herbst.de