Jan Garbarek © Rolf M. Aagaard
Trilok Gurtu © Barka Fabianova
Jan Garbarek Group feat. Trilok Gurtu
Sunday
3
November
2024
19:30 – ca. 21:30
Großer Saal
Presented by
Wiener Konzerthausgesellschaft
On the wings of sound
»The human voice is my ideal«, says Jan Garbarek, and there is hardly a saxophonist who has come as close to this ideal as the musician from Norway. It is the contrast between the songlike, poetic, simple and the intensity of free improvisation with other musicians that defines Jan Garbarek's art. The artists who accompany him each contribute to this in their own way: Rainer Brüninghaus, his long-time companion on piano, Trilok Gurtu, the wild drum magician from India, on percussion and the Brazilian Yuri Daniel on bass. Jan Garbarek is a musical circumnavigator who catches whatever the winds blow his way. Anyone who listens to him can feel what touches him and what gives him the breath that brings the sounds to us. Or as the German weekly newspaper »Die Zeit« put it: »The utopia of infinite breath and natural melodiousness drives Garbarek's music, it does not sweat, it is serene in the sense of the word, which comes from the Greek aither and means clear sky, pure air.«