Mnozil Brass: Strau$$ – A Little Dance Between the Chairs

For more than thirty years now, the seven virtuosos have been effortlessly weaving their way between Johann Strauss and Frank Sinatra, between Shostakovich and Prince, or passionately transitioning from Schubert to their chosen relatives from Queen, all with their dazzling brass instruments. They are equally unconcerned by the solemn grandeur of one side as they are by the supposed banality of the other. But Strauss – whom Brahms, Wagner, Verdi, as well as craftsmen and girls from the suburbs (and even a Gershwin) revered fervently – was the founding father of the nonchalant playfulness that dances between genres. Strauss was the first to churn out hits by the dozen; he hired an arranger to work faster and realized that he could reproduce his sound worldwide with his brothers. He was the first to blur the lines between high and low culture and became a mass phenomenon as the waltz king – the cash registers had never rung sweeter. In Strau$$, Mnozil Brass now reveals everything about Strau$$. Even the last bit. In the end, all that remains is the naked truth.