«These small symphonies still inspire, arranged with love and a keen sense for athmosphere… the instrumental pieces written by Spillmann…
«An original thing, this new ‘exhibition’. » music **** sound **** »
«Jazz trumpet player Matthias Spillmann and his septet deal with Musorgskys classic ‘Pictures At An Exhibition’, arranged it congenially and…
«Wonderful atmosphere and jazzy firework… As for the question of combining the classical work with jazz: not only the jazz…
«He succeeds to keep the thrill throughout both of the cds because the sound that this group creates with four…
«The result is a jazz suite, in which the musicians handle the classic material very freely in their improvisations and…
«Transparently condensed or broadend for his minimal big band Spillmann doesn’t lift the chest, he makes it fly. And the…
highest rating «unmistakable top class» «An intelligently and proficiently interpreted piece of reminiscense of a completlety new and promising kind!»
«Spillmann provides exciting variations on Musorgskys «Pictures at an Exhibition» with his outstandingly-staffed septet.»
«Zurich trumpeter Matthias Spillmann goes way beyond just a new instrumentation. For his septet he repaints the pictures totally and…