Rave reviews for Albert Schnelzer at Composer Weekend Festival

Albert Schnelzer was composer in focus at the Stockholm Concert Hall Composer Weekend Festival in April, where you among other works could hear his new orchestral piece, Bulletproof premiered by the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic conducted by Evan Rogister. Jakob Koranyi was soloist in the Cello Concerto – Crazy Diamond and created magic in the Stockholm Concert Hall.

Reviews:
"The work ”Bulletproof” contains both fear and streaks of belief in the future… Dull, rumbling percussion culminations are reminiscent of an underlying threat that develops into expressive outbursts in the strings and brass. These rhythmically accentuated attacks just as suddenly cease and toward the end change into a dreamy passage with a celesta sounding like chimes and a solo violin. Contrasts between the lyrically beautiful and the raw riffs are typical of Schnelzer´s music, where calm is often born from the very din… The conductor Evan Rogister has a fine sensitivity for Schnelzer´s sophisticated and dynamic ”Tales from Suburbia” that bubbles with activity. The piece is born from a squeaking, both mystical and nightmarish. But above all it is enchanting and imaginative… The cello concerto ”Crazy Diamond” is also a journey to be sucked into.. The cello part seems to soar through space like a fragile rocket on its way to the dark backside of the moon. Gorgeously beautiful and fervently played by the soloist Jakob Koranyi."

Dagens Nyheter/Johanna Paulsson

The most overwhelming Schnelzer work of the evening was the cello concerto ”Crazy Diamond”, where the soloist Jakob Koranyi gave a fantastic performance. Like Tuonela´s singing swan, that slowly glides over the silent water in the Finnish kingdom of the dead, the cello sings very tenderly about something helplessly lost…

Svenska Dagbladet/Lars Hedblad