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“Ansgar Beste is a man of conviction, he composes like this, because he cannot do otherwise. […] He takes his position friendly in tone, yet with enormous conviction.”
“Well-written compositions […] with many interesting ideas, […] own little world. […] It is a good feeling to return to the starting point of my project with Musica Vitae. Back to the roots and to my first inspiration […].”
“Soundwise […], sticks under the strings and combs as bows are recalling swarms of insects. Rhythmically, the piece is quite tricky. Hats off for the random ensemble!”
“Some of the most persuasive performances of the entire festival. […] I was really smitten with Rituel Bizarre for prepared string orchestra (2010), a visceral exploration of timbre […].”
“Impressively skilled craftsmanship […] entertaining and easy-to-listen-to […] orchestration amazingly well-made […]. Exciting […].”
“Ansgar Beste […] demonstrated, that the young generation cares delightfully little about old-school permits and prohibitions. […] Beste’s Rituel Bizarre […] shows already an individual musical language. It sounds like a magic ceremonial deep down in a cave, from which only ghostly sound shadows reach our ear […].”
“The sound picture of a distant techno party, celebrated by brownies, gone wild, somewhere in dark ventilation shafts.”
“Ansgar Beste’s ‘Rituel Bizarre’ […] gets its charm from agitatedly proliferating noise material merging in an artfully branchy manner.”
“Ansgar Beste […] turns with ‘Rituel Bizarre’ […] the sound expectations connected with the idea of a string orchestra thoroughly upside down. […] This work by Beste is unique in its theatrical imagery.”
“Jury member Hans-Peter Jahn was fascinated by […] ‘Rituel Bizarre’ […], also because the instruments are not for a moment applied as usual.”
“Beste’s Rituel Bizarre […] was such a consistently developed study of unconventional sound production that one couldn’t help being impressed. Beste is a clearly independent voice.”
“Rituel Bizarre […] brilliantly exploring the textural possibilities of the string instruments with a very organic result; occasionally, one believed to hear wind instruments there, or even electronic sounds.”
“‘Rituel Bizarre’ […] is amazing: everything is built on pizzicati and silenced/stopped strings, deaf yet absolutely expressive sound […] a magma of twelve uninterrupted minutes (!) of intense listening.”
“Beautiful music.”
“At times, the orchestra sounded like a mechanical machine. A really thrilling piece.”
“Funny and interesting. […] Shrewdly assembled instruments, […] something uniquely his own and exciting. […] Combination of playfulness and childlikeness with a formal seriousness.”
Statement Simone Eckert 2018 (Dialogues Rêvants) “Entertaining […] rhetorical and eloquent piece with exciting timbres and rhythms, not only thriving on effects, but creating affects.” …more Statement Tellef Ragnar Heilmann 2018 (Dialogues Sauvages / Rituel Bizarre) “Funny and interesting. […] Shrewdly assembled instruments, […] something uniquely his own and exciting. […]…
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