Gershwin & de Falla
The three musicians of the Astor Trio have managed the rare establishment of a completely new and unusual chamber music ensemble in classical music and thereby inspire the audience and the critics alike. George Gershwin meets Manuel de Falla - on their new album the Astor Trio combines works of the two composers, thus bringing classical chamber music at its best on stage, in a completely new perspective. There is a groove and a spontaneity that one knows more of jazz acts, combined with classic sound quality and precision.
Enthusiastic Press
Daily press and magazines took with enthusiasm records and concerts of the Astor Trio. For German magazine Akustik Gitarre the new album "Gershwin & de Falla" is "a chamber musical highlight". Daily paper Main-Echo describes the Trio's playing as "simply divine". For the "Neue Musikzeitung" the album "Bach and Piazzolla" is an "impressiv achievment". The paper mentions particularly the "impressive symbiosis of a classical ensembles and its sound ideal with the spontaneity and rhythmic conciseness, as one knows from Piazzolla's original 'Quinteto Tango Nuevo' ".
Bach & Piazzolla
Published in 2012 and already a legendary chamber music recording: on their album "Bach & Piazzolla" the Astor Trio combine the music of Astor Piazzolla with two sonatas of the grand master of the Baroque Johann Sebastian Bach. Baroque meets Tango - this could be a title on first glance. But behind the unusual combination of the trio is more...
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Concerts
DORTMUND - Sunday, 11 November 2018, 17 h, Ev. Patrokluskirche Dortmund-Kirchhörde, concert with the Astor Trio