B.A.C.H. · like waters

"I imagined what it would be like to walk the stream back to the source, to go to the origin in the mountain."
(Bernie Mallinger about "B.A.C.H. - like waters")

"This is no ordinary string quartet", stated the great jazz and rock guitarist John McLaughlin with praise and recognition. Indeed, the classically trained radio.string.quartet, which caused a sensation for the first time at the Berlin Jazz Fest in 2006 with its own arrangements of McLaughlin's Mahavishnu Orchestra, reinvents itself every time. Whether classical, jazz, pop, rock, folk or electronic music, everything becomes a source of inspiration and flows into the sound cosmos of the Viennese ensemble. In "BACH - like waters", composed by Bernie Mallinger (SKO star performer "Iron Maiden in Love with Vivaldi"!) in the silence of the lockdown, they carefully transfer Bach's sonata for solo violin in G minor into the 21st century, enriched by the human voice and sound design. A venture that demands total dedication from the four of them. Cellist Sophie Abraham remembers the feeling when they played the last movement, the Presto, for the first time: "It was powerful. Exhaustion and enlightenment at the same time." In other words: a revelation.

With:
Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra
radio.string.quartet:
Bernie Mallinger, violin, vocals
Sophie Abraham, violoncello, vocals
Cynthia Liao, viola, vocals
Igmar Jenner, violin

Program:

radio.string.quartet
"Silence"

Bernie Mallinger / Johannes Dickbauer
"Song"

Johann Sebastian Bach / Bernie Mallinger
B.A.C.H - like waters

and other works

Concert introduction at 19:30