Coda: Orchestra Suites

Extending the concept initiated with his critically-acclaimed Jazz Composer's Orchestra Update album, described by Down Beat as "pretty fantastic", Michael Mantler radically reworks music from several phases of his career. On Coda he shapes favourite pieces - a personal "best-of" - into new musical suites, now played by an orchestra comprised of both jazz and classical players. Source material is drawn from the albums 13 and 3/4, Cerco un paese innocente, Alien, Folly Seeing All This, For Two and Hide And Seek. Coda was recorded at Vienna's Porgy & Bess Studio in September 2019, and mixed at Studios La Buissonne in the South of France.

THE ORCHESTRA
conducted by Christoph Cech

Leo Eibensteiner (flute)
Peter Tavernaro (oboe)
David Lehner (clarinet)
Fabian Rucker (bass clarinet)

Michael Mantler (trumpet
Christoph Walder (French horn)
Daniel Riegler (trombone)
Simon Teurezbacher (tuba)

Joanna Lewis, Ulrike Greuter, Diane Pascal, Tomas Novak,
Simon Frick, Maximilian Bratt, Magdalena Zenz, Emily Stewart (violins)
Simon Schellnegger, Anna Magdalena Siakala,
Daniel Moser, Tamara Stajner (violas)
Asja Valcic, Arne Kircher (celli)
Tibor Kövesdi, Philipp Kienberger (basses)

Maximilian Kanzler (vibraphone, marimba)
David Helbock (piano)
Bjarne Roupé (guitar)