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.

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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...