Die komplette Musikgeschichte

After 13 wild years of crossover, during which Uwaga! has explored a wide variety of musical styles with meticulous attention to detail – sometimes as a quartet, sometimes performing with renowned symphony orchestras such as the WDR Funkhausorchester – the ‘classical innovators from the Ruhr’ (WAZ) are now embarking on their next great adventure. In the space of 90 minutes, they cover an enormous range, as Uwaga! boldly attempts to chart the entire history of music in a single programme.

Chronologically, the audience is catapulted in fast-forward from early Renaissance sounds through the Baroque, Classical, Romantic, jazz and rock ’n’ roll eras right up to the latest pop hits. Music by Monteverdi, Haydn, Wagner, Miles Davis, the Beatles and Daft Punk brought together in a single programme. You can – and must – expect anything and everything. For with a unique blend of humour, passion, audacity and virtuosity, Uwaga! make the music their own, deconstruct the styles and reassemble them, thus ensuring an extremely entertaining journey through the centuries. (This programme is also available to book with musical cabaret artist Timm Beckmann.)

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AMADEUS GOES BALKAN GROOVE

Little has been conveyed so far about the debaucherous journey Mozart long ago has undertaken along the Danube river heading for the Balkans. Shrouded in myths, much is narrated about the trip. Legend has it, that wild parties took place, as well as whining and dancing, and some bottles of Slobovitz were emptied. Mozart so naturally merged with the local culture, his nick name became „Mozartovic“.

Mozart´s works created in that period were shut away for a long time, since they represented too much of a radical discontinuity in regard to Vienna classical music, too much of an anomaly regarding instrumentation. In that period, Mozart exclusively composed for two violins, accordion, contrabass and percussion instruments. In addition, too anomalous were the demands placed on the players of the instruments at that time: Daring changes from original Balkan stylistics to Vienna classical music were intended, fierce jazz improvisations, often driven forward by grooves resembling disco style, representing the energy of a rock band paired with the attention to detail of a chamber music ensemble. All the lust for life Mozart sensed in the Balkans in what seems to have been the happiest phase of his life is reflected in these works.

However, he was ahead of his time, time had not yet come for that kind of music. Fortunately, the genuine copies of the scripts reappeared - and as coincidence wants it, with regard to Uwaga!, they fit like a second skin.

The musicians of Uwaga! agree: Wolfgang Amadeus’ music grooves in a very subtle way and, hence, is ideally suited for interpretation in many ways.

mozartovic results very recognizably from this cultural openness of all musicians, seen here in the downright absorbed Balkan influence by Miroslav, the youngest Uwaga! member. Thus, the scenario of a fictitious travel by Mozart to Serbia developed – it is the starting point for unfolding the musical fantasy across borders.

The musical globetrotter Max Klaas is the perfect choice for the collective play: as a master of the classical world music drumming instruments, moreover settled in pop music, he finds his own ways to produce drum sounds of any kind on his percussion set.

Audios

Balkan Klaviersonate

Raggae Violinkonzert

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ACOUSTIC CROSSOVER FROM BALLET TO DISCO

Named „Klassik Erneuerer aus dem Kohlenpott“ (classical music renovators from the Ruhr region) by German newspaper WAZ in 2015, the four musicians playing two violins, one accordion, and one string bass, keep on grooving through the classical music repertoire for years already, with an ongoing fondness of experimenting.

Formed by a large diversity of backgrounds, ranging from classical music, to jazz, to pop music, and to world music, they disassemble with passion styles of music in their single components, re-assemble them to create new music worlds, thereby providing ecstatic pleasure to their audience. (newspaper Passauer Neue Presse, 2016)

Throughout all their forays, covering the centuries and the diverse styles, the four instrumentalists always encounter the same questions: In order to awaken the sound of the pieces of music, their interior construction plan has to be decoded, the engine that drives the music.

This is why these crossover enthusiasts became experts on all those different grooves, sometimes rapidly alternating between them while the grooves, depending on the genre, come along sometimes smooth and subtle, sometimes resilient, sometimes even stompy.

Thus, it seemed obvious to create a program containing different forms of dance music. Uwaga! disaggregates ballet suites, catapulting them into other spheres, lets baroque minuets and Tango Nuovo groove, or it presents acoustic versions of the discotheque heroes they listened to when they were young, like Daft Punk or The Prodigy.

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