Music in the old vicarage
Concert in a class of its own with the Duo Farbton
Rhythmically booming passages alternated with melodic sounds and sacred components, which made the expressive and virtuoso playing of the two a unique sound experience. By involving the audience, mixing several musical genres and moderating, the duo succeeded in winning over the concert guests.
With the sounds of Sansulas, the artist approached the stage from the background to start the evening programme with the piece "Reel" by Steffen Wick. With an original composition and pieces by Casey Cangelosi, Evelyn Glennie and George Gershwin's "Rhapsody in Blue", the audience was actively involved in the musical programme throughout the first part of the concert. For example, listeners were able to try their hand at the handpan or translate Schreiber's gestures into sounds and noises. Leroy Anderson's furious piece "Typewriter", made famous by Jerry Lewis' pantomime, sent the guests off into the interval full of vigour.
Modest Mussorgsky's "Pictures at an Exhibition" then formed the highlight of the concert evening in the duo Farbton's own arrangement. In addition to the grand piano, marimba, vibraphone, cymbals, tambourine, gong disc and tubular bells were used. Viktor Hartmann's pictures set to music with the so-called promenades, each of which adapted to the musically "painted" pictures, took the guests on an imaginary tour of the exhibition.
The sound variations of the different instruments perfectly matched Hartmann's pictures set to music. There are shop assistants nagging at a market, chicks chirping and dancing a ballet, children playing in the park or people walking through the great gate of Kiev, the highlight of the exhibition visit, which the duo presented with monumental sound. It was a brilliant end to an extraordinary concert evening that inspired the guests to talk about what they had heard for a long time after the concert.