Results for "Johannes Oppel"

Johannes Oppel

Innuendo

By Tobias M. Hoffmann

Label: Mons Records
Released: 2024
Track listing: Innuendo, Summer Solstice, No Way Back, Sanctuary, Convictions, Bipolarity, The Lake, Perseverance

Tobias Hoffmann Jazz Orchestra: Conspiracy

by Jack Bowers
October 29, 2022

While listening to Conspiracy, German-born composer-arranger Tobias Hoffmann's second album, the thought arose that “Stan Kenton would have loved this." Like Kenton, Hoffmann is an explorer who approaches music from a cerebral point of view but never overlooks the need to swing and to keep an audience engaged by varying the tone, tempo and color of ...

Graz Composers Orchestra meets Claudia Döffinger: Monochrome

by Hrayr Attarian
July 16, 2018

The title of composer and pianist Claudia Döffinger's collaboration with Graz Composers Orchestra, Monochrome, is a bit of a misnomer. The seven pieces, five by Döffinger, are definitely not in shades of a single color. They are multitextured, vibrantly-hued and captivating, and often coalesce around one or two instruments like Kaleidoscopic patterns around light beams.