The Vienna Berlin Music Club
Concert of Dvořák Prague Festival
Not everything in their programme is classical. But everything has class. Seven musicians from the Berlin and Vienna Philharmonics bring a repertoire you’d never hear in their home orchestras.
Founded by members of the Berliner and Wiener Philharmoniker, the Philharmonix play everything they have always wanted to play. Their trademark: brilliant arrangements, incomparable virtuosity, and, above all, unbridled joy in making music together, which spills over to the listener in a matter of seconds.
In their brilliant new adaptations, they work on pop, jazz, swing, folk music, klezmer, and famous melodies from big Hollywood films in addition to classical works. They bring out previously unheard, original aspects to all compositions - and skilfully combine things that otherwise do not belong together. So not everything is classical music; but everything has musical class.
Their music is influenced by the sound aesthetics and tradition of the top orchestras for which they also work: Thilo Fechner (viola), Daniel Ottensamer (clarinet), and Ödön Rácz (double bass) play with the Wiener Philharmoniker; Stephan Koncz (cello) and Noah Bendix-Balgley (violin) with the Berliner Philharmoniker. They are joined by the outstanding soloists Christoph Traxler (piano) and Sebastian Gürtler (violin), who, together with Stephan Koncz, is also the compositional head of the ensemble.
