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Viennese Musicians Thrill Festival's Audience

Datum objave: 07.08.2014.

Following two opening sonatas by Johann Sebastian Bach Nakon, the first for flute, the second for cello, a performance of one of the most notable Austian contemporary composers Hebert Willi’s Concerto for flute solo took place, showing the performer’s high quality and  the strong solo potential of the flute. This composition, created in Greece, while Willi observed the sea, the playfulness of the waves and the alternating colours within it, allowed Dieter Flury to verify his status as the “Flute Paganini”. The first part of the concert ended with a performance of Bach’s Sonata for cello and harpsichord in G major, after which Bach opened the second part of the programme, after which a performance by György Ligeti’s Sonata for cello solo followed, capturing the audience completely. The audience was so impressed with the perfectly derived challenging passages and enjoyed the lovely colours and melodic lines, that Tamás Varga returned twice. Stefan Gottfried followed with a psychedelic Continuum for cello solo, which put the audience into a trance, out of which it is awaken with the final performance of the evening – Bach’s Sonata for flute and basso continuo in E major, which perfectly ended lthe concert, encircling it into a coherent whole. The excellent cooperation of top musicians : flutist Diete Flury, cellist Tamás Varga and Stefan Gottfriedon on the harpischord, in combination with a well-chosed programme, provided the audience with a wonderful music-filled evening.

Flutists Dieter Flury enjoys a high reputation with the music critics due to his subtle sound, perfect technique and musical intelligence, and is therefore often referred to as the “Paganini on flute” thanks to his “phenomenal finger and breathing techniques”. As a solo flutist of the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra from 1981, and its general director since 2005, Flury achieved a career of a versatile instrumental soloist, chamber musician, music pedagogue and orchestra conductor, with the most renowned contemporary composers such as Beat Furrer and Herbert Willi composing music for him. Tamás Varga, 1st cellist of the Vienna Philharmonic and Vienna State Opera and Stefan Gottfried, who has achieved a successful international music career as a harpsichordist, pianofortes and pianist, the instruments he teaches at the University of Music and Performing Arts, Vienna, will both be performing alongside Flury.