Don't Stop Them Now: the Philharmonix in Klosters

The Philharmonix

Ödön Rácz, Stephan Koncz and Daniel Ottensamer

Noah Bendix-Balgley, Sebastian Gürtler and Thilo Fechner

By Mark Pullinger, 01 August 2022

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“it’s ridiculously clever, yet the Philharmonix make it seem ridiculously easy”

Reviewed at Arena Klosters, Klosters on 1 August 2022

Mozart, Oriental Overture (arr. Stephan Koncz)

Dvořák, Humoresque (arr. Stephan Koncz)

Koncz, Balkan Party

Mercury, Don't Stop Me Now (arr. Stephan Koncz)

Gürtler, Zute Dunje

Tchaikovsky, Russian Overture (arr. Stephan Koncz)

Gürtler, Babarababa

Jones, Soul Bossa Nova

Macpherson, Waltzing Matilda (arr. Stephan Koncz)

Brahms, Hungarian Dance (arr. Stephan Koncz)

Hickman, Rose Room

Philharmonix

Daniel Ottensamer, Clarinet

Noah Bendix-Balgley, Violin

Sebastian Gürtler, Violin

Thilo Fechner, Viola

Stephan Koncz, Cello

Ödön Rácz, Double Bass

Christoph Traxler, Piano

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Mark Pullinger

Mark has been a Bachtrack editor since 2014. He is also an experienced critic, writing hundreds of reviews for the site, as well as a freelancer writing for other magazines and newspapers. He also writes programme notes and blogs on Substack. Mark has a particular passion for the operas of Verdi as well as Russian and French repertoire. Outside the concert hall and opera house, Mark enjoys cooking and travel and is probably at his happiest let loose in a French patisserie or a Viennese coffee house.

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