Live concerts by the Michael Wollny Trio are always experiences to be treasured. These three ideally matched musicians never fail to find fascinating new directions for the music, or to take the listener by surprise. At the end of October 2015, when Wollny, Weber und Schaefer were setting off on a Karsten Jahnke JazzNights tour, taking in fourteen German cities, the respected German broadsheet the Süddeutsche Zeitung gleefully quipped: “Wollny's off on tour. Just get yourselves there. Awesome!” 

Michael Wollny: piano, Christian Weber: bass, Eric Schaefer: drums

Márta Kurtág: piano
György Kurtág: piano

Vijay Iyer: composer/piano
Prashant Bhargava: film director/editor
International Contemporary Ensemble

Arrows Into Infinity, a film by Dorothy Darr and Jeffery Morse, is a striking documentary portrait of Charles Lloyd. It chronicles the arc of an improviser’s still-unfolding life, moving through time with memories, archive footage and music, lots of music.

NTSC, 16:9, Disc type: 9, Region Code: 0 (world wide), Dolby Digital 5.1 and 2.0, Language: English, Subtitles: English, German, French, Italian, Spanish, Total time: ~113 min.

A special production featuring German actress Barbara Sukowa, who sings and performs the new song cycle adapted and re-composed for orchestra by Reinbert de Leeuw for the Schönberg Ensemble. Sukowa and de Leeuw have been a very successful team for twenty years, having performed, among others, Arnold Schönberg’s Pierrot Lunaire.