fortunately, there was the Sabina. She sat in the first row in the concert hall, Maag, and laughed so much that Michael Elsener asked them why. You find him funny, was the answer – and for two to three minutes, the Show was actually funny. Namely: spontaneous and quick-witted. Christa Markwalder was quite of a different opinion than the Sabina, said Elsener, in allusion to the undisputed Start of his SRF1-Show “Late Update” last Sunday. And then delivered an Improvisation in the empty and occupied seats in the hall, when he responded on the audience.
Otherwise, he seemed in this TOZ-Intermezzo, to combine Comedy with music, similar to the television: too slow, too inflexible, too uncertain in tone. The description of Magdalena Martullo-Blocher as a “rutting hen with ADHD” is neither funny nor evil, but simply coarse. The tip against her cult-Video to the “Seven thinking steps” have been left by the analog-focused half of the motley audience at a loss. And to the music Elsener had Stoll, in contrast to Hazel Brugger or Lara, to say to his predecessors in this Format – almost nothing. The Pointe, Dmitri Shostakovich today would compose a Ode to Putin’s naked torso, brought at least anyone Laugh.
Then there was still a couple of parodies: Sven Epiney and Christa Rigozzi, Peach Weber, and Vujo Gavric. There is Elsener really good, only he has shown it too often. And so happened, what would keep high culture-pessimists for impossible: it is Not the Comedy lit this evening, but the classic.
The most beautiful addition
Because Kian Soltani, 27 years young, and Austrians of Iranian descent and a steep starter as a Cellist, showed in Shostakovich’s cello Concerto No. 1 in everything, what was missing Elsener: a secure Timing, an inexhaustible Palette of tonal colors, artistic, and political urgency.
Kian Soltani plays Reza Vali’s “Folk Song From Khorasan”
How Soltani from an almost crouching tone sang; as he bubble it had under the relentless objections of the Tonhalle-bugler Ivo Gass; he told on his Cello in accordance with the conductor Manfred Honeck of longing and melancholy, violence, and resistance: The brought the previously rather reserved audience to Cheer.
As Zückerchen presented Soltani, together with the cello group of the Tonhalle orchestra in its own processing of Shostakovich’s “the Gadfly”film music. And we argue now: A nicer addition, there will be no more in this concert season.
(tages-Anzeiger.ch/Newsnet)
Created: 25.01.2019, 13:24 PM
