Press
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Karl Löbl/Kurier
The new cd "out of" is full of fantasy and pleasantry. It offers sensous
images of sound and a maximum of musical skills. This music will accompany me in
future ...
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Kurier/Vienna
The audience's favourite at the full Berliner Konzerhaus was the terriffic
first performance of Helmut Hödl's "Sing, Sing, Sing" for vienna clarinet connection and symphony orchestra (brilliantly
the Vienna Jeunesse
Orchestra, conductor: Herbert Böck), a lively hommage to Jazz, Minimal
Music, Bartok and Benny
Goodman's 100th anniversary.
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Profil/Vienna
...the four virtuosos easily walk along the borders of Chamber Music, Jazz
and Minimal Music in subtile
arrangements and own compositions, lacking the usual strain and "effort" of other cross over projects....
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Ensemble/Germany, magazine for chamber music
Vienna clarinet connection, a quartett of highest virtuosity and flexibility, using the full range
of "clarinet
power" in all musical styles. The energy and joie de vivre spreads over to the listeners ...
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Rohrblatt/Germany, Thomas Grass
The magic formula of vcc is lightness! A more clear and transparent than
this ensembles blend, a warmer
than Helmut Hödl's and Rupert Fankhauser's clarinet sound, a more
breathtaking than Hubert Salmhofer's
bassetthorn diction or a more compact and straighter than Wolfgang
Kornberger's bass clarinet walking
bass was never heard before!!
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Morgenpost, Berlin
...they know how to entertain, with musical perfection as well as amusement.
While they are real virtuosi,
they are musicians first.
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Westfalenpost
...RHEINGAU FESTIVAL. The audience was unanimous in it's verdict: an evening of rare quality. The four
viennese clarinetists gave a concert of superlative class. A concert full of variety and surprises, by turns
dreamy and "sing-along" lively.